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Digital Tampering Photos

March 21st, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Many people making digital tampering photos are really trying to send a message through their creations. But this is more than discussable, because many other so called artists prefer to manipulate the images to hide other important things that shouldn’t bee seen by the common folk. Of course, digital tampering photos are nothing more than fake images, but the question is why are they modified?

And this is not a new concept that started with the latest technology and the adequate means of achieving this. It has started long ago, below we will discuss further:

Faked photography has a long and inglorious history. In the 1870s, spirit photographs were creating images of dead loved ones that were combined with shots of living kin taken during battles and passed off by charlatans as proof of the spirit world.

During the Cold War, the Russian and Chinese governments were notorious for their propaganda fakes; discredited officials were routinely removed from state photographs.

But many of them weren’t so well created, and a lot of clues showing the fact that they were fake were proving it, people can readily spot subtle inconsistencies.

Verification experts look for anomalies like differences in light, shadow and shading; perspective that’s out of place, and incorrect proportions, such as one person’s head being larger than another’s. Thanks to the digital tampering photos nature of today’s photos, though, it is very easy to fool the eye with high quality forgeries, reshaping reality with a few clicks of a mouse.

A digital camera contains a light-sensitive plate covered with tiny sensors called cells, which receive photons of light when the shutter opens. The cells collect those photons, then convert them into electrical charges, which are amplified and themselves converted from analog to digital form.

Before the digital age, photo-verification experts sought to examine the negative — the single source of all existing prints. Today’s equivalent of a negative image is the RAW file. RAWs are the output from a camera before any automatic adjustments have corrected hue and tone. They fix the image in its purest, unaltered state. But RAW files are unwieldy and they don’t look very good and occupy a lot of memory and resources, so, only professional photographers tend to use them.

Hackers have shown themselves capable of making a fake RAW file based on an existing photo, creating an apparent original. Nowadays, it is harder to tell the real difference between digital tampering photos and plain normal ones.