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My hobby is Photoshopping, and I enjoy making hoax pictures. The standard is to make them believable. Even with "perfect" source pics EVERY TIME, it's hours of work for a still image. I worked for twenty hours on a shot of the Clintons snuggling with Saddam Hussein in a hammock. It wasn't perfect. It was VERY GOOD. I'm proud of it, especially Hillary's hand on Saddam's.

But it wouldn't hold up in court. It's fake, and if you know anything about it, you can see that. (The biggest apparent flaw in it isn't a flaw at all--Bill Clinton's arm looks crooked, but that's just source pic. What ISN'T bent about the man?)

To do it on thousands of images from video just to "frame" someone--nobody has that much time. I'm with you, IncPen. I watch a movie like Jurassic Park now and see where things don't match and don't work--and that was done by professionals with much better equipment than I'll ever have. Once you know how this is done and have done it a few times, fakes are very, very easy to spot. The few that are done so perfectly they fool us are rare and represent far too many hours of somebody's time.

The sad thing is that people are so cynical the jury might well believe this defense. My children are quick to doubt what they see in photos. "Is that photoshopped?" they ask. They've seen me work my magic on photos, so they no longer trust that anything is really what it seems..they are not yet sophisticated enough to see the flaws.

I worked for twenty hours on a shot of the Clintons snuggling with Saddam Hussein in a hammock. It wasn't perfect. It was VERY GOOD. I'm proud of it, especially Hillary's hand on Saddam's.

But it wouldn't hold up in court. It's fake, and if you know anything about it, you can see that.

Yup. wont hold up to close scrutiny by experts.

Before the (very timely and very appropriate) defenestration of Rivero from FR, he posted a photo of a yellow Ryder truck, supposedly located at a govt. faciliy. Then some other FReeper posted a shot with 3 or 4 yellow Ryder trucks in a row. It looked very credible, although some people began a debunking mission, about shadows being wrong, etc. Fun days indeed.