Adobe eyes fraud-busting tools for Photoshop

[LiberalFighter]

Source: ZDNet
Adobe eyes fraud-busting tools for Photoshop

In the near future, it could be a lot easier to see if those pictures of the person you've been talking to on Match.com have been retouched.

Adobe Systems' Advanced Technology lab is working on plug-ins for Photoshop that would detect whether a photo has been tampered with, according to an Adobe representative. So far, the company has two plug-ins that are in a fairly advanced stage of development. Adobe is working with Dartmouth professor Hany Farid, an expert in photo fraud detection.

One tool from Adobe, called Clone Tool Detector, determines whether a section in a picture, such as a patch of sand or a field of grass, has been recopied from another part of the picture. Last year, Reuters admitted that a photographer cloned a smoke plume in a shot of wartime Beirut. The tool can't ascertain with absolute certainty whether two items, say a pair of clouds or other images, have been cloned, but it will say that the two images are "improbably similar."

[Swamp Rat]

1. There are a many ways around that.

:)

Anyway, I don't have this problem. I happily vandalise any photo I desire.

[1620rock]

2. And we love your skills Swamp Rat!!!!

[aquart]

3. Wow. Bosch. That's pure dedication.

[Swamp Rat]

4. After seeing it recently in the Prado, I just HAD to do it.

:D

[aquart]

5. YOU WERE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH IT?????

Ooooooooohhhhh.

I got to hold some of Turner's watercolors at the Tate. They made me wash my hands in front of them first.

[Swamp Rat]

6. mmm, Turner's watercolors.

:)


Yes, I stood about 5 feet in front of it, staring at it for about 45 minutes. It is my favorite piece in the entire museum. The Reina Sophia, just down the street, is also a great museum. Lots of Picasso, Miro, etc., and one of my faves, Juan Gris. ;)

[DeSwiss]

7. Vandalize?

No sir, you immortalize! :D

[Johnny Noshoes]

8. Fantastic

the last 6 years as REALLY BAD acid trip. Nice job!

[Swamp Rat]

11. America ate the Brown Acid

:(



www.swamp-rat.com

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Holy Heironymous Buttheads!

You've outdone yourself on that one, man. :thumbsup:

[madokie]

10. back years ago in my acid days I would have loved to have this collage

Now that is a work of art. :-)

[Atman]

12. That is a brilliant piece, Swampy. But don't be cocky.

Adobe is the 800 lb gorilla. If they want to do this they'll find a way. I mean, really...it won't be that hard, and it should have been done a long time ago.

When did Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun" come out? A bazillion years before Photoshop was a pirated mainstream must-have. And even then, he mentioned a day when mere photographs would be inadmissible in courts of law because of programs like Photoshop.

This is a good thing. It is too easy to fuck up someone's life with Photoshop.

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