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Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries

by Actual News Geezer | March 8, 2007 at 07:28 am

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There are forgeries, and there is plain old fun. This news story is an opportunity to send in your favorite examples of Photoshop Phun. Here's what has come in so far.

Adobe has announced a suite of new tools to spot photo forgeries, and to be able to match images with the camera that took them, Wired Magazine reports today.

This will come as welcome news to news media who have been struggling to find ways to authenticate photographs even when altered by powerful photo-editing software (also made by Adobe).

In the most famous recent case, a blogger uncovered the doctoring of a war photo taken in Lebanon by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj. The photographer was fired, and Reuters has since clarified its rules about the use of Photoshop.

AP has not had a similar scandal but is still on guard. "When we look at the manipulated images that we have come across historically in the AP, it's a tiny, tiny percentage. But all it takes is one or two and the effects are huge," said Santiago Lyon, director of photography for the AP, which handles about 750,000 photographs a year.

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publicreader

at 07:47 on March 8th, 2007

Interesting story ANG. Wonder how much it will cost? Also , did you happen to click on the link in the original story- the one that points to a little miniseries in newseum about photographic manipulation under Stalin? It is fascinating.

http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/

Actual News Geezer

at 08:16 on March 8th, 2007

No I didn't - running a mile a minute trying to keep up with all the posts!

Glad to see you are on top of things.

Have you checked out our news budget for today?

You're more than welcome to add to it - I can explain what's it's all about if you're interested.

Jordan Yerman

at 11:32 on March 8th, 2007

I remember reading about this a while back... such software was pitched as a good way to "legitimize" digitally-based photojournalism. As it is, any extraordinary image spawns visions of Photoshop in viewers' minds. Of course, celluloid can be manipulated, too, but it just takes longer, and there is a physical negative that one can go back to.

liamssoft

at 12:17 on March 8th, 2007

There is an open source program which is similar to Photoshop, but not so many effects, its a free download,

GIMP - Windows installers

Provides installations packages for GIMP on Windows.

License:
GNU General Public License (GPL)

zorrow303

at 23:03 on March 8th, 2007

hi i do different thing i love to get a good camera of my own, but due to my family status i cant have one, so i prefer to do at my computer using photoshop and i just love it. i know i do sumtime break the law of copyright while doing those beautiful manipulation lol, and i appolize for tht to those owner of the real pic. neway i wish all the best, hve a luk at my site for some more fun www.syrusphd.org