4abnormal opened this issue on Feb 16, 2012 · 5 posts
4abnormal posted Thu, 16 February 2012 at 7:40 AM
Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Photoshop#p/c/3/UrlsnQ32YhY
Just wondering if we can still use photographs as evidence.
kgb224 posted Thu, 16 February 2012 at 8:48 AM
I will have a look at home at the link.
God Bless.
photosynthesis posted Thu, 16 February 2012 at 11:47 AM
An impressive demo. I have Photoshop CS4, which has very nice tools for doing similar types of modifications, but not as easily or as intelligently as this content awareness tool. It would be nice to have, but given the upgrade costs, I'll probably stick to CS4, which is quite powerful enough for my needs as a non-professional.
Can photos be used as evidence? I guess that's a legal question that I'm not qualified to answer, but I suspect that photographic evidence must now be subject to a much greater degree of challenge to verify it's authenticity than in the past. I'm not sure how sophisticated the tools that law enforcement agencies (particularly the FBI & CIA) use are, but I would guess that they can spot amateur modifications easily & that it would take extremely careful & precise work to fool their experts, if it's possible at all...
kokabeel posted Fri, 17 February 2012 at 2:27 AM
Quote - Can photos be used as evidence? I guess that's a legal question that I'm not qualified to answer, but I suspect that photographic evidence must now be subject to a much greater degree of challenge to verify it's authenticity than in the past. I'm not sure how sophisticated the tools that law enforcement agencies (particularly the FBI & CIA) use are, but I would guess that they can spot amateur modifications easily & that it would take extremely careful & precise work to fool their experts, if it's possible at all...
I have to agree with this, and also state this:
Photographs have been maniuplated in the past though they've been film. Now more than ever it's easier to manipulate a photograph.
Lucie posted Tue, 28 February 2012 at 8:42 AM
I remember reading an article a while back about programs that can detect if a photo has been manipulated and how. If it's possible to detect manipulations on a photo, surely investigators would make use of those programs and I guess manipulated ones would be discarded as evidence? I'm going to try to find that article again so I can share the link, not sure I'll be able to though, that was several months ago.