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Fake Photos

fake frozen coyote

We just couldn’t stand the weather…

February 2, 2010

The photo above is supposedly of a coyote who “literally froze dead in his tracks” at -28 degrees. (Fahrenheit? Centigrade? The site does not specify.) In reality this photo was achieved by simply putting a stuffed and mounted coyote outside, waiting for it to snow and then photographing it. Warm blooded creatures do not freeze [...]

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FBI creates a TLS!

January 22, 2010

Left: Osama Bin Laden in 1998 (AP Photo); Middle: the FBI’s “digitally-altered” age progressed photo of OBL which was achieved using “cutting-edge” technology; Right: the campaign photo for the leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, Gaspar Llamazares
I tweeted about this news story on Mashable a couple of days ago. I was so happy someone finally [...]

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CSI: Photoshop

October 20, 2009

Joseph Carson was abducted by his non-custodial dad as a toddler and was missing for about five years when a customer at an auto parts store saw that a PSA showing his age progressed image was strikingly similar to a kid who just happened to be in the store at that exact time.
With all of [...]

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A Brief History of Photo Fakery…

August 24, 2009

The New York Times “Week in Review” magazine ran a slide show yesterday titled A Brief History of Photo Fakery. They put up quite a selection of fake imagery – both historic and current – some of which have been previously featured on this blog and some that have not. (Such as the above image [...]

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A “real or fake” photo game from LIFE Magazine…

August 5, 2009

LIFE Magazine has a fun real or fake image game online for you to test your “this looks Shopped” skills! There are 39 photos in all and some of them are from LIFE’s historic archives. Why don’t you play the game and see how you do?

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