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Stalin, one of the most fascinating men to ever walk the planet, did a lot more than edit "people out of photographs". He edited people out of entire regions of the USSR. He also like to edit food out of their bellies.

Ultimately, alas, Stalin was without a loving matriarch.... his was unfortunately taken from him and his masculine spite consumed him (and his love for alcohol).

And that shit is HARD! Have you ever tried to overlay several negatives in a dark room to develop the picture you want? If you don't act fast (depending on your chemicals) you'll waste SOOOOOO much paper!!

Clone stamp tool. Healing brush. 1337 'shop skillz, bro

Delete>content aware.

Someone's up to date on their CS6.

I've always had a hard time with video/photo evidence. Not only can most organisations control the amount of photos/video around. (To a limiting degree with the cell phone phenomenon). Thing is though, I'm sure you could pay someone a pile of money to falsify a video or photo. I'm not very good at photo manipulation, but there are people who are. It would be very naïve to assume that it's never happend.

This also reminds me of why I never understood why screenshots or documents are taken seriously. I could photocopy a document look up the font and replace the words with relative ease. Screenshots being much eaiser.

Of course you can't assume every photo/video/document/screenshot is fake. However it would be interesting to see how many are fake and why.

Very true. Most people - even technologically-aware people - don't realize the extent to which what we see is shaped digitally. Sure, everyone know certain things are done with CGI in movies, but what isn't obvious are the subtle and normal-looking things in mass media that are totally fabricated.

What am I talking about? View this You might be amazed at the ease with which things are convincingly faked.

It might be healthy to question whether or not your favorite musician really is in the music video you're watching...or if they even exist as a person and not just a computer image. News footage should be subjected to scrutiny. It would even be reasonable to question what you (think you) see in real life. (See "augmented reality")

Photojournalist here. Photos you see from legit companies are NOT going to be touched like this. People caught doing that are removed and black listed within the industry for the most part. So yeah, people on the Internet might but the photographer/editors are not touching that.

This is an important point. If we're looking at a photo from the AP we can generally assume it's legitimate. If we're looking at FBI surveillance photos, on the other hand, we can't be so sure.

/r/conspiracy's problem is that they do not VISIT the site(s) claiming to be shopped or altered.

Boston, Sandy Hook - they are all accessible by redditors, yet, none of them head out to verify / confirm what some of their 'open minded discussions' are made up of.

This subreddit takes materials, from the very media they do not trust, and create a fervor over images that show something that is not what they claim it to be.

It's disturbing,... especially under the guise that redditors are looking to 'wake us up'.

OH MY GOD!!!

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!!

It's called Photoshop, welcome to 1991...

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Yours isn't even a good example. The noise and sharpness levels on the area that was edited do not match the rest of the photo. This would be discovered by anyone with even a modest desire in debunking a photo.

http://imgur.com/Z9BdXP1

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Those people aren't hanging out in r/conspiracy.

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This thread is bad and you should feel bad.

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MakesStuff_Up, 5 day old account, probably a shill or conspiratard asshole. Don't even engage him. Just downvote and walk away.

With a good amount of karma for 5 days of work.

Damn my eyes if they should compromise my fulcrum, If wants and need divide me then I might as well be gone.

/r/conspiracy at its finest, demand evidence and then when you receive it exclaim that its photo shopped.

And if a professional looks at this would they not have some kind of skill or tool to find out it was manipulated?

Although the other user in this thread came off as a dick, he did make a decent example on how you could use the same software to highlight photo alterations.

http://i.imgur.com/Z9BdXP1.jpg

I wouldn't need a tool to tell me that this photo was manipulated. It's poorly done.

Making this post redundant.

and this one

I was commenting on the submission, not your cocomment.

Similarly, it is extremely easy to edit a video and say- add an airplane into it, when there in fact wasn't one in the original footage, such as I demonstrated in this video

Those people aren't hanging out in r/conspiracy.

And that shit is HARD! Have you ever tried to overlay several negatives in a dark room to develop the picture you want? If you don't act fast (depending on your chemicals) you'll waste SOOOOOO much paper!!

This thread is bad and you should feel bad.

Stalin, one of the most fascinating men to ever walk the planet, did a lot more than edit "people out of photographs". He edited people out of entire regions of the USSR. He also like to edit food out of their bellies.

Ultimately, alas, Stalin was without a loving matriarch.... his was unfortunately taken from him and his masculine spite consumed him (and his love for alcohol).