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Ten Digitally-Altered Disasters

Ten Digitally-Altered Disasters. Spot the Difference!. Spot the Difference. University of Wisconsin Recalls Brochure With Doctored Image.

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Ten Digitally-Altered Disasters

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  1. Ten Digitally-Altered Disasters Spot the Difference!

  2. Spot the Difference

  3. University of Wisconsin Recalls Brochure With Doctored Image Hoping to illustrate its diverse enrollment, the University of Wisconsin at Madison doctored a photograph on a brochure cover by digitally inserting a black student in a crowd of white football fans. The original photograph of white fans was taken in 1993. The additional black student, senior DialloShabazz, was taken in 1994. University officials said that they spent the summer looking for pictures that would show the school’s diversity — but had no luck.

  4. Spot the Difference

  5. Newsweek version (the original) Darkened his skin tone using contrast

  6. Spot the Difference

  7. TV Guide Puts Oprah's Head on Another's Body

  8. Spot the Difference

  9. Newsweek's Cover Called 'Ethical Breach'

  10. Spot the Difference

  11. Reuters Fires Photographer After Alteration

  12. Spot the Difference Actual

  13. Image Gives Iran an Extra Missile Actual

  14. AP Clones Hands • Editing error gave an extra set of hands

  15. Actual Picture • What do you think about these pics? How does it misrepresent where the hotel is? Digitally altered Picture

  16. Demonstration – students saw part of it in previous video (short) - http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9212069

  17. 10 Photo-Editing Flubs: Digitally Altered Photo Disasters • Microsoft apologized over an image on its Polish Web site that removed a black man http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8425991&page=1

  18. Tonya and Nancy skating together

  19. Spot the Difference Actual photo

  20. Katie Couric’s Weight Loss Actual photo

  21. Abraham Lincoln • Abraham Lincoln’s face on Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Actual Picture

  22. Josef Stalin • Would routinely have his enemies airbrushed out of pictures

  23. Specular Highlights • Look at the eyes – some have one flash and some have two – plus where the flash point is on the eyes

  24. Hany Farid • Watch video at: • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/hany-farid.html - 13+ minutes • Question – how do you feel about altered photographs?

  25. Digital Forensics – 5 Ways to Spot a Fake • By HanyFarid – June 2, 2008 The following information that further explains the video was found at: • http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=5-ways-to-spot-a-fake

  26. Lighting • The light-source direction for the police does not match that for the ducks

  27. Eyes and Positions • The author’s group uses the shape of a person’s two irises in the photograph to infer how his or her eyes are oriented relative to the camera and thus where the camera’s principal point is located

  28. Send in the Clones • Copying and pasting of a region of an image – very common

  29. More Manipulated Photos • Images have become the mainstay of our experience of historical events and occasionally people have felt the need to manipulate those images to support their views or manipulate the truth. Since the advent of the Internet, we are now also seeing a large number of “photoshopped” images created for humor or popularity. This is a list of 15 of the most famous manipulated images. • The following photos were found at this link: • http://listverse.com/2007/10/19/top-15-manipulated-photographs/

  30. Camera Fingerprints • an algorithm that would detect any modification of an image. • looks for these periodic correlations in a digital image and can detect deviations from them. • A drawback of the technique is that it can be applied usefully only to an allegedly original digital image; a scan of a printout, for instance, would have new correlations imposed courtesy of the scanner.

  31. ABC News – Trick Photography • Go to http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9318162 and watch the video 7+ minutes • Hotels use trick photography to encourage you to stay there – how do you feel about that? • http://abcnews.go.com/2020/beware-trick-photography-staple-online-ads/story?id=9215461&page=1 - where the following slides’ information was found at

  32. Toronto's Race-Changing Summer 'Fun Guide' • Officials in Toronto had to defend their own decision to deceive its audience when it was learned that they had superimposed the face of a black man over that of a white man to make a recreation brochure look more inclusive.

  33. Oyster.com - Photo Fake-Outs • http://blog.oyster.com/oyster-com-featured-on-abcs-nightline-13851/ • A continuation of previous video – some new information • Look at if you have time

  34. The BigQuestion • Is it OK to fake or change a photograph?

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