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In the glorious image above, I know it's hard to believe but there are some items of fakeary which a keen TDI detective eye would spot.
Firstly, that black carpet which leads to the camper van looks dodgy ... probably photo-shopped in afterwards.
The lack of rubbish around the campsite, I'm sure they have been whisked away ... airbrushed away.
A bit klunky really.
Apart from those two obvious issues, it looks kosher
From klunky to smooth. This image below was doing the rounds of Twitter in 2017 ...
Vladimir Putin was digitally popped into this image.
"A shark swimming down a flooded road."
"A bunch of missiles blasting off in unison during an Iranian missile test."
At first glance they might seem reasonable, but digitally altered images are everywhere, spreading like wildfire
on news sites and social media.
So how can you tell if that photo a member shared on a Forum is authentic — or has been manipulated?
Image forensic experts have a few tools to spot images that have been tinkered with.
Algorithms can spot cloned areas, like the extra Iranian missile inserted into a launch photo .
Other techniques include building a virtual 3-D model from scratch to analyse the way light falls on a scene.
But for the average person without access to these tools, nor the skills or time to properly pick apart
dodgy-looking images, the TD forensic Investigation Team have done the legwork for you
If it's a widely circulated news social media image you might find the image debunked on Snopes.com or another outlet.
Get image metadata
So a photo has passed the reverse image search. Next, try burrowing into its metadata — the swathe of
information that's added to the photo by the camera.
Light and shadows
Time to crack out the ruler and a pencil: the next method is super low-tech.
Shadows and light can reveal objects that have been moved or popped into a photo.
Use photo or imaging editing software
If you suspect an object has been deleted from a image, software such as Photoshop or Pixlr can uncover
telltale signs.
It relies on exaggerating very subtle differences that aren't usually visible. Even deep blacks contain a
hole range of brightnesses, Dr Farid said.
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