The best tools to discover fake pictures - "TechnoTron"

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The photo retouching has been around since the first photograph. There has always been photographers who, with more or less success, have altered an image to give it more light, to remove nuisances, or to include others that embelleceran the composition.

In analog photography, it was enough to let the photograph to reveal more or less time or crop an image, place it on top of the other and get another copy for edits and montages to hand.

With the entry of Photoshop on our computers, the digital retouching of photographs is easier than ever and with a little skill and the suitable tutorial, or simply by trial and error, anyone can retouch a picture, and that is natural, or give the hit.

However, in internet it is common to find fake images, photomontages that are trying to make us believe but which turns out to be a photo altered to fool us or convince us of something.

Some are coarse and rough, and look to the league, but other mounts are very well made and seem credible to the point disseminated in a viral way via social networking.

How to avoid to take us the hair with false images? Not enough to have a good eye, sometimes we have to go to tools to detect these fakes or photomontages. Let's look at some of them.

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Forensically

We started with Forensically, a web-tool specifically designed for the detection of alterations in a photograph.

Its list of features allow you to view digital touch-ups on any image you upload to this page: magnifying glass, detection of the feature clone of Photoshop, noise analysis, access to the metadata and tags of geolocation...

Up to a total of twelve ways to detect false images to view items that have been added or altered later.

Googlr Images

With Forensically you can perform an in-depth analysis of a photography, but maybe don't want to mess so much.

Another way to detect fake is to find the original file that gave rise to the counterfeiting or retouching.

Previously we have spoken of the engines to reverse, such as Google Images, that allows you to find images similar to one that we provide as proof.

That is to say, instead of looking for a combination of words, you upload an image or provide a link, and Google Images will show approximate results that you can filter with the available options.

It is likely that, with Google Images, des with the original image or just the page where it was originally published that photo. So unmont counterfeit.

TinEye

Google Images, upload a photo and TinEye will show you results that are identical or approximate.

In this way you'll see if the photo you have in your hands is original, has been retouched or just be published out of context.

FotoForensics

Returning to the analysis tools, FotoForensics looking aspects retouched an image that you upload in JPEG format, or PNG, or you know your link online.

FotoForensics is more simple than Forensically. Is restricted to show metadata, analyze the image noise and JPEG compression.

The images that you upload are public and you can share the result of the analysis via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, or Reddit. A quick and practical way to unmask false images and share the outcome with other internet users.

Find EXIF Data

With Find EXIF Data you'll get the EXIF metadata of your photos. You only have to indicate the link where the image is hosted.

What are the EXIF data? This information indicates when and how did the photography, what camera or device, and other technical data such as GPS position, time of exposure, if used, or no Flash, ISO speed and aperture, etc, In some cases, even see if the image has been touched up with other software.

Image Edited?

What has been edited your image? This question will makes you Image Edited?, another handy online service that analyzes a photograph and gives you the EXIF data of the image for which you choose.

As in the previous case, it's up to you to interpret the data and decide whether there is or is not a retouching in photography.

Izitru

To finish, Izitru, the service where you upload your photographs and detector of fake images.

So on the one hand you can upload images and share them from a link and, on the other, you can analyze JPEG photos to discern if this is a frame-up or the picture is as pulled out with the camera.

Unlike the previous services, Izitru takes his time to perform the analysis. At the end you will display your results indicating the level of credibility of the image.

While Izitru not particular exactly what tests you performed, tends to be quite accurate, showing when and where you took the picture with accuracy.

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