Long before there was Photoshop, news media used other means to modify photographs to match their message they wanted to convey. Compare the two images of a group of defendants on trial in 1963 under the McCarran Internal Security Act from the Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection.

Standing, left to right: Louis Weinstock, William L. Patterson, Burt Nelson, Roscoe Proctor, Arnold Johnson, Albert “Mickey” Lima.
Seated, left to right: Betty Gannett Tormey, Dorothy Healey, Miriam Friedlander.