<story><title>Medieval Photoshop</title><url>https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/medieval-photoshop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>The last time I was at a museum I learned that some medieval painters would create &amp;quot;templates&amp;quot; of a sort where the majority of the painting would be complete except the face. They&amp;#x27;d travel around and if you bought the painting they&amp;#x27;d fill it in with your face. It makes a lot of sense, but was a level of automation and customization I hadn&amp;#x27;t considered.</text></comment>
<story><title>Medieval Photoshop</title><url>https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/medieval-photoshop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>subjectsigma</author><text>The YouTube channel Shadiversity has a series called &amp;#x27;Medieval Misconceptions&amp;#x27; which I really enjoy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLWklwxMTl4sx73IrJ4PPUJmulfsHxBJ7M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLWklwxMTl4sx73IrJ4PPUJmul...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overarching theme of this series is that &lt;i&gt;medieval people were not dumb, they just had different cultures and less technology&lt;/i&gt;. The more I learn about it the more I come to appreciate this idea.&lt;p&gt;Of &lt;i&gt;course&lt;/i&gt; if drawing images was expensive and difficult, someone would find a way to make copies and edits of existing images! It&amp;#x27;s what any of us would do.</text></comment>