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Spot Digitally Altered Images/Photos/Pictures

July 31, 2008 · Filed Under Imaging Technology 

How do you spot digitally altered photographs/images/pictures? It’s a tough job, really. Learning how to spot digitally altered images/photos/pictures requires modern methods with the advent of modern softwares like Photoshop (which is highly capable of doctoring images), and more sophisticated imaging tools and gadgets. With available technologies in the market nowadays, spotting digitally altered images becomes more difficult (especially to the untrained eyes). Technology really can change so much even our perception of reality.

In a related story, the camera may not lie, but doctored photos do according to new research into digitally altered photos and how they influence our memories and attitudes toward public events.

Sample of a digitally altered image

When presented with digitally altered images depicting the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing and a 2003 anti-war protest in Rome, participants in a new study by American and Italian researchers recalled the events as being bigger and more violent than they really were, suggesting that viewing doctored photographs might affect people’s memories of past public events.

Digitally altered image of the Loch Ness monster

Also, photographs of the Loch Ness monster which became popular in 1933 was proven fake and digitally altered.

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  1. Digital Globe or Google Earth? Our Globe in the Digital Age | Digital Globe on November 19th, 2008 3:38 pm

    [...] a smaller place to live in. Good thing these two companies do not have a reputation of uploading digitally altered images which makes photos of the globe more realistic and [...]

  2. dan on March 20th, 2009 8:48 pm

    “Also, photographs of the Loch Ness monster which became popular in 1933 was proven fake and digitally altered.”

    Digitally?

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