Does NewEgg photoshop product pictures?

[VirtualLarry]

I always thought that NewEgg just took pictures, such that "what you see is what you get".

But recently, I came across some product pictures, that seem to be a photoshop.
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Click on the pictures, and then compare the first two.

How did NewEgg photograph the LED fans running, when the PSU is clearly switched off in back? It seems obvious that it was a photoshop job.

 

[Roguestar]

Yes. It is.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, or misleading. If I bought a PSU with LEDs in it, I'd want to know what it looked like while running. I don't care if they merge that with an image of the plug taken out and switch in the off position, really. It's not like they're trying to trick you into thinking the LEDs are going to be on when the PSU if off.

 

[AmberClad]

With the number of new products that arrives at NewEgg every day, I doubt that they have the time to physically install every product and snap pics of it running. I appreciate the fact that they clearly indicate that the PSU will have blue LEDs when it's on. That way, I know immediately not to buy it .

I'd be more pissed if they didn't have any pictures, photoshopped or not, of the obnoxious LEDs and I found out about them only after I had already bought the product.

Just for the record, the lit-up image is the same as the one on the Rosewill website. Now, with Rosewill being a NewEgg subsidiary, it's unclear who created the image first -- the NewEgg warehouse people, or Rosewill marketing. But I've seen many manufacturers add photoshop touches to their product images. So this isn't exactly the scoop of the century.

 

[CDC Mail Guy]

LOL, Good eye Larry!

 

[Modelworks]

Newegg probably doesn't need to photoshop its products.
I'm guessing that when you want to be a distributor for a product that the manufacturer provides all the pictures you need to advertise the item.

 

[Zepper]

AFAIK, Newegg does almost all of the pics in the product galleries themselves (though on occasion I do see what look like the same pix from the mfr's site. I'm often disappointed when I go to the mfrs' sites and find fewer and/or less useful pix of their product there. I'm sure it is less time consuming to just take another shot than to photoshop them, but some touching up is almost always needed. IrfanView handles my modest touch-up needs - particularly for bringing out detail in my shots of black or dark items.

.bh.