Photoshop Trickery

I chose to use a picture of myself from freshman year and a picture of Barack and Michelle Obama smiling with George and Laura Bush outside of the White House taken at Obama's inauguration, which I  found online.  I removed Obama from his picture and placed him into mine.  I resized him and adjusted the lighting and contrast of the two images so that they looked more natural together.  Then I made the picture black and white and used the "posterize" tool to make the image look like a political poster.  Finally, I put the campaign slogan at the bottom of the image.  I did all of this in order to create a campaign poster for 2012 which falsely presents me as Obama's running mate.  This is, of course, a fraud and completely untrue.  I did this to be humorous more than harmful, but it potentially could be harmful by spreading false information about a presidential candidate in an election.  Slander and lies are a harmful occurrence in elections, an occurrence which deceives the public into voting for candidates who don't represent their best interest.