<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aa8009e7-c6f7-45fd-b44a-baf0555354af/7652D4F9-CDEB-412D-8E83-387A69D11593/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://consumerist.com/consumer/consumerist-kit/how-to-tell-if-images-were-faked-227339.php" href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/consumerist-kit/how-to-tell-if-images-were-faked-227339.php" style="font-size: 11px;">consumerist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://consumerist.com/consumer/consumerist-kit/how-to-tell-if-images-were-faked-227339.php"><DIV class="entry"> <H2><A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/consumerist-kit/how-to-tell-if-images-were-faked-227339.php">HOW TO: Tell If Images Were Faked</A></H2> <P><IMG width="522" height="93" class="center-img" src="http://www.consumerist.com/assets/resources/2007/01/towers2.jpg" alt="towers2.jpg" />As a skeptical consumer, you've probably looked at photo in the news or a piece of advertising and thought, hey, I bet that was faked. Now with a little help from Photoshop, and <A href="http://www.timmatheson.com/2007/01/how-to-tell-fake-images-from-real-ones-using-photoshop/">Tim Mathenson's tutorial</A>, you can tell.</p> <P>• Open Photoshop • Open questionable image • Press CTRL+U or go to Image -&gt; Adjustments -&gt; Hue/Saturation • Set Hue to low • Set Saturation to high • Scroll the light bar back and forth, looking for areas of the image that don't match • If you find a splotch of discoloration, that may indicate the picture was retouched.</p> <P>Tim says this will work on any retouched photo, not just Photoshopped ones. <SMALL> — BEN POPKEN</SMALL></p> <P><A href="http://www.timmatheson.com/2007/01/how-to-tell-fake-images-from-real-ones-using-photoshop/">How to tell fake images from real ones using Photoshop</A> [Tim Matheson]</p> <IMG width="0" height="0" class="track" src="http://track.gawker.com/stats/count/post?i=227339%26s=ead95647" /> <DIV id="galleryFrame"></DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7652D4F9-CDEB-412D-8E83-387A69D11593/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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