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Identifying Manipulated Images

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-that-out dept.

Jamie found a cool story at MIT Tech Review. (As an aside, it sits behind an interstitial ad AND on 2 pages: normally I reject websites that do that, but it's a slow news day, so I'm letting it through.) Essentially, software is used to analyze light patterns in still photographs. Once you can figure out where the light sources are, it becomes a lot easier to determine if an image has been photoshopped.

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  1. Good by Fri13 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Now when we have a tool what shows when image is manipulated by using Photoshop, we can start using GIMP or any other _image manipulation_ software because those tools cannot trace them because they dont "photoshop" images, they manipulate them.

    Yah, bad sarcasm, im just tired that "photoshop this" "photoshop that" like there would not be any other image manipulation software. I bet that over 50% Photoshop owners just has a warez version of it and 80% of photoshop users could do their things with any other software.

  2. Ad? What ad? by brunes69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Adblock - everyone should have this installed.