Using one facial feature from an actual photo would not be so noticeable, but to use practically the whole guy’s face? Is this artist stupid, lazy, or both? Guard your photos!
A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out the FBI had used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look.
Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe travelling to the US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a most-wanted poster.
He said the use of a real person for the mocked-up image was “shameless”.
The FBI admitted a forensic artist had obtained certain facial features “from a photograph he found on the internet”.
The digitally-altered photos of the al-Qaeda leader, showing how he might look now, aged 52, were published on the state department’s Rewards for Justice website on Friday.
(Photo compliments of the BBC.)
BBC News – Spanish MP’s photo used for Osama Bin Laden poster.
