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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Photoshop Filter of Evil is a trope about when a news program and/or documentary shows a photo of a criminal/victim in color, then shows a eerie black and white/negative of the photo to emphasize something malevolent about the person. Often combined with a slow zoom on the subject's now-black eyes, just to spotlight the creepiness.
You'll also hear a sound effect as the photo switches filters, like someone is throwing the giant "make negative" lever. Usually something like a giant clunk, followed by the sound of rusty nails on a blackboard.
Something very close to this actually happens in real life, as anyone who has had the lights suddenly go out on them can attest; the latent image on the retina tends to be chroma-inverted due to "bleaching" of the rod cells.
See also Deliberately Monochrome, Red Filter of Doom.
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Sampaguita, the 3rd game, uses it on two occasions:
On the game's box cover◊, although it's done to symbolize the mystery behind Maria and her memories, as she's not evil.
And during the game, when the protagonist gets fatally shot while protecting his lover Maria with his body, in Good End 3 and Normal End 2.
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In Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, the developers apparently just got Photoshop and were playing with it while making the game. The result: Tons of filtered photos in ridiculously random places.
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Double Cast, the 1st game, uses it during a sequence of the Genocide Route, when the protagonist and Haruka discover Shoko's body in her bathtub, and confirm, to their horror, her death;
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The DVD release of the Higurashi: When They Cry anime used this effect on the cover art to emphasize that this is a dark, violent show. The sleeves are reversible so that you can display the cute, colorful artwork from the original Japanese release if you want.
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Resident Evil 5 uses a color negative filter when a character goes into Dying status.
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The Yarudora series uses this trope a few times in several of its games.
Double Cast, the 1st game, uses it during a sequence of the Genocide Route, when the protagonist and Haruka discover Shoko's body in her bathtub, and confirm, to their horror, her death;
Sampaguita, the 3rd game, uses it on two occasions:
On the game's box cover◊, although it's done to symbolize the mystery behind Maria and her memories, as she's not evil.
And during the game, when the protagonist gets fatally shot while protecting his lover Maria with his body, in Good End 3 and Normal End 2.
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The Onion: The cheap trick of reversing the colors of a photo to make the subject look creepy is spoofed among many other examples of Manipulative Editing in the manufactured satirical crime story "Man Had Sex with Wife Thousands of Times Before Killing Her".
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10 O'Clock Live often mock the papers doing this. Like having cleric Abu Qatada depicted as some sort of nuclear cloud or having Nick Clegg as an amoeba.
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Mister Negative, a villain for Spider-Man, The Punisher, and Cloak & Dagger, sports this trope (though not as Martin Li).
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Used for horror in film in Ringu, as it happens every time somebody dies by a stare-down with Sadako.
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Sunset Shimmer's attack ad meant to discredit Twilight Sparkle as a candidate for Princess of the Fall Formal features this over footage of Twilight's clumsy attempts to do research in the school library.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has this in "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" just before Luna shows Sweetie Belle the Bad Future.
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Parodied by The Non-Adventures of Wonderella here.
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An early episode of The Chaser's War on Everything has the group lampshading and spoofing this trope by using the same technique on the Australian PM. Hilarity Ensues.
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Homestar Runner:
Used on Original Bubs in the Strong Bad Email "original", as Strong Bad describes the "bubbling pit of crude turmoil" lurking behind the scenes. It goes greyscale, too.
Lampshaded in an episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. When Strong Bad sees part of a marathon of rockumentaries in "Baddest of the Bands", he observes "Uh-oh, they did that inverted negative photo thing; somebody's going to rehab."
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Used on Original Bubs in the Strong Bad Email "original", as Strong Bad describes the "bubbling pit of crude turmoil" lurking behind the scenes. It goes greyscale, too.
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis has the entire screen pause and go to photonegative when faced with a Live Selection: where you're given two options to deal with an impending threat. Played most straight with the titular Nemesis' first appearance after it murders Brad right in front of you.
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