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This pretty interesting - I guess the media has been photoshopping images for years, but the latest one is Time Magazine running a image of Reagan with a photoshopped tear running down his cheek:

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/20...n-time.php

They don't explicitly state that the image has been modified, but the credits read: ""Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O'Brien." When asked for an official statement, Time responded that it was a "conceptual cover". Big Grin

I am quite surprised actually how often this sort of thing happens in the media. The next link is actually quite eye opening:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/resear...tampering/

Just count the number of times heads are spliced onto someone else's body!
Now they've got software to detect altered photos....
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/2007...thtrek.asp
If people can't use the clone stamp any better than in this http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/2007...thtrek.asp post, then they deserve to get caught...