How to tell if something has been "photoshopped"

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I was wondering if there's any software to tell if an image has been photoshopped?

A friend has been sent an incriminating picture of her boyfriend. Unfortunately only in jpeg. To me it looks genuine but I was wondering if there's any way of running some kind of tracker on any changes made to an image.
 
Show us the image and we will tell you ...........
 
What your friend needs is instinct, rather than software. :(
 
We need pictures, go on, show us please.............
 
Thanks, I should have the original file shortly and will check the Exif.

Thanks for the help. I can't imagine a shot like this would have had any cropping done to it, it's literally a snap in a pub so it's the circumstances that are incriminating rather than what he's up to.

Thanks for the help
 
I think it would take an expert to deduce whether he was drinking a shandy or a straight pint.
 
Well i've now seen all the pics and they're actually very bad quality mobile phone pics.

They prove nothing other than he was where he said he wasn't, no photoshopping so it's over to her now...
 
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More worrying is if it was 'doctored' who did it and why?

I always remember a post somewhere asking for surveillance advice and the answer is the same. It has to be about trust. If you have to 'prove' something with a loved one, it really is just about over anyway.

Graham
 
blue max said:
More worrying is if it was 'doctored' who did it and why?
I think it is rather harder to doctor a poor quality picture, than a good one in my experience (not that I do this sort of thing you understand).
I always remember a post somewhere asking for surveillance advice and the answer is the same. It has to be about trust. If you have to 'prove' something with a loved one, it really is just about over anyway.

Graham
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God you lot are nosey buggers :D

blue max said:
If you have to 'prove' something with a loved one, it really is just about over anyway.

Graham
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But I guess that Mr Max here has a very valid point
 
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
 
swanseamale47 said:
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
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:lol: Bad experience, swanseamale? :lol:
 
swanseamale47 said:
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
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SPOT ON.



MD
 
swanseamale47 said:
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
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Couldn't agree more :)
 
swanseamale47 said:
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
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I absolutely agree, i saw a programme once where a pair of con artists made money from blackmailing a poor bloke, because they had a picture of him being kissed by some random woman!!!
 
Chris Perry said:
I absolutely agree, i saw a programme once where a pair of con artists made money from blackmailing a poor bloke, because they had a picture of him being kissed by some random woman!!!
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the important point here is that if there was any real trust in a relationship, blackmail like that wouldn't be possible. You could simply tell the truth.
 
dazzajl said:
the important point here is that if there was any real trust in a relationship, blackmail like that wouldn't be possible. You could simply tell the truth.
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i agree, but there is to much paranoia and suspicion these days...
 
Without trust the time is borrowed already.

I suspect that the circumstances are what has fingered our boy here, (she says) "Were you in the pub", (he says) "no dear, working late", (friend says) "I saw your man in the pub", lots of "no he wasn't etc" and friend is put out.
Produces proof and feels vindicated.
Relationship ends, friend feels bad, becomes ex friend blah blah.


See, it never works out!
<and breathe> :D
 
I wasn't in the same pub at a different time and I can safely say I didn't see him there, almost without doubt.
 
I'll share a story with to illustrate my answer further up in this thread.
A good few years back I took several pics of a famous (household name) family entertainer in what appears to be in a BDSM situation with a hooker, very sordid and sleazy. If published would probably seriously damaged his career.
What the picture didn't show was that his wife and son were watching (out of shot) along with the cast of his tv show, crying laughing, it was a strip-a-gram birthday present, and he good-naturedly was simply joining in the fun.
That photo taken out of contex gave a totally misleading impression of the truth, and thats why you should be so careful when assesing a single (or few) pictures.
 
swanseamale47 said:
The problem with a pic of somebody doing something they shouldn't is you don't know the contex it was taken in. For example a chap in a pub minding his own business, girl runs up and hugs him, snap taken he's the naughty boy, he's having an affair! without actually seeing whats led up to the pic it's pretty meaninless anyway.
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True - but the chances of someone taking a picture of that at exactly the right moment? Sounds like either a set up, or someone is actually up to no good.

Or a complete coincidence of places and times :lol:
 
OutLore said:
True - but the chances of someone taking a picture of that at exactly the right moment? Sounds like either a set up, or someone is actually up to no good.

Or a complete coincidence of places and times :lol:
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Or just luck?.
Thats the problem, was it luck, a set up or up to no good? theres no way to tell.
 
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