Posted: On a bunch of BitTorrent sites or at your local software retailerSILICON VALLEY, Calif. -- In a rare, lightning-fast product release, PhotoShop is capitalizing on the controversy Iran caused when it PhotoShopped extra missiles into its recent launch photos released to media outlets worldwide. Adobe, the Silicon Valley parent company of PhotoShop, has just released the "ICBM upgrade" allowing PhotoShop users to add numerous threatening weapons and special effects to their digital photos.
The effects include 76 different kinds of mushroom clouds, 147 missile designs including both vehicle-mounted and shoulder-mounted weaponry and so-called "green" weapons like spears, rocks and fair-trade, locally-produced explosives. The new software also offers an IED Wizard where users can pick various household items out of which to create bombs and then download shrapnel plug-ins and martyrdom video templates.
"We're targeting -- no pun intended -- rogue nations and 14-year old boys; ideally, 14-year-old boys in rogue nations," said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. "Not since the Manhattan Project has anyone made this big of a splash in the realm of international diplomacy."
Reacting to the PhotoShop missile controversy, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain said, "This program is the greatest threat to our troops on the ground. I've been to Walter Reed to visit the wounded. A young man had his arm "shopped" off, as the enemy calls it. If I'm president, our troops will be properly equipped with Control-Z jamming technology and blue screens of death to fight this new terrorist weaponry."
