How Photoshopped Is That Picture?

Freddybear writes "Digital forensics experts at Dartmouth have developed software that can analyze digital photos to rate how drastically they have been altered by digital editing techniques. 'The Dartmouth research, said Seth Matlins, a former talent agent and marketing executive, could be "hugely important" as a tool for objectively measuring the degree to which photos have been altered.'"

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Re:reliably?

[mcgrew]

Reread coldwetdog's comment. Jpeg is lossy, tiff is not. The difference between tif and jpg is the same difference between wav and mp3. You can save a tiff as many times as you like without losing quality.