I am a theoretical physicist and currently Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. I am the author of three books: God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009), The Achievement Gap in US education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000). Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog are my personal ones and are not those of UCITE or Case Western Reserve University. If you wish, you can send me an email by clicking here.
The ability to change photographs drastically seems to be so easy now that we would be wise to not look on any photograph as providing definitive proof about anything without corroborating evidence.
The article and accompanying video gives the basics of how it is done.
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Important words, Mano. I find the same is becoming increasingly true for video these days. I've been playing with video and audio recording for several years now as a hobby. In learning the craft, one thing that I've been struck by is that virtually nothing we see in a movie is "real" Even movies without special effects are 'color corrected' (meaning the editors can change the colors and 'look' of the video to almost anything they want) and edited in other ways. Audio tracks are edited (compressed, limited, etc.) as well.