what are some easy ways to tell if an internet picture is fake?

Question

I am just curious about this....because sometimes ill be in a chat room and see someone with a pic and when i go to a different chat room someone else will have the same pic....BUT thats not what I am getting at (obviously one or both of them is a fake) BUT some times one picture wont be as clear as the other, or it will look like its digitally scrambled a little bit....I am just wondering what are some Easy things you can spot to see if someone's pic is fake? and well like the example I just gave, if the Image is digitally like..scrambled is the best word i can use to describe it, then does that mean its fake?

Thank you all for your time in reading and answering this.

Answer 1

I'm not too sure what you are asking. I know that not every sight has or person has the need for the same format. JPG are notorious about changing image quality. If you change the size of the image and reduce it then it looses pixels. If you take your saved image and make it the original size, it will not look as good. It does not mean the image is a fake, but a poor copy. Tineye.com is a good site that allows you to check an image with other images on the web. It does not have every image, but I have been impressed with what it finds. If you are interested in an image, you can have it search for the largest image first. I find the larger the image, the better the picture and closer to the original. It may also have more background and you will be able to see any differences in the image from the one you were checking it out with.



If you are faking an image, skin tone, and color are hard to get right and the shadows will tell all. Sometimes you see a lot more more the greater the magnification.

Answer 2

The most effective way, according to a professor at Cornell, is to look at the lighting. I fyou remember the photograph that went around a few years ago with Kerry on the same podium with Jane Fonda and others, that was fake and IDed by the light sources. The light on Fonda was from one direction and on Kerry from another



Hyperpixellation or blurriness is no proof - the camera might have moved.

Answer 3

It is easy to identify poor fakes, but in these days of Photoshop, a good artist can make any image look real. The days of a "photo never lies" are over. For some excellent examples of the Photoshopper's work go to



http://www.worth1000.com

Answer 4

best words for scrambled is collaged, stitched. Its very easy if you look at the proposion of related objects, just like head and body, one usually out of proposion, also skin tones and anatomy of the object, usually out of placed.

Answer 5

If the photo is blurry or pixelated then it is fake.