How to Tell if a Photo Has Been Doctored. Nearly every photo online has been edited in some way, whether through cropping, filtering, compressing, color correcting, or other generally innocuous touch ups. But a lot of people attempt to pass off doctored images as true ones, leading to hoaxes, crackpot theories, and more than one trip to Snopes for some fact checking. You can do the world a service by helping those around you identify real photos against fake ones. Party-Camp.jpg' alt='Funny Comedian Videos Last Hijack Movie' title='Funny Comedian Videos Last Hijack Movie' />Funny Comedian Videos Last Hijack FreeGet the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. Funny Comedian Videos All Creatures Big And Small. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews. An index page listing Nostalgia Critic content. Transformers The Critic is extremely excited in his first review, in this case, for Transformers. Drug. Heres how Look for Poor Editing First. Glaring mistakes should be the first way you identify a doctored photo. If you think somethings been modified, a helpful tip is to look around the area you believe is edited. Warping around a subject is a pretty clear indication of photo manipulation. Check out hands, feet, and faces, common areas where you may find the lingering presence of poorly erased objects like jewelry, blemishes, or debris. Low resolution images might make mistakes harder to discover, so consider blurry camera photos and video footage with a grain of salt. Lighting is Key. If two people standing next to each other are lit in a different manner, one of them might have been inserted after the fact. The same goes for objects added to photos. If the light falling on the object doesnt correlate with the rest of the highlights in the photo, its probably been edited. Check Out Repeating Pixels. You might have a photo of a bright blue sky, but every blue pixel is a tiny bit different, and cant just be replaced by a blue paintbrush. Some tools, like the brush or clone tool in Photoshop, depend on using identical pixels to reproduce whatever youre cloning or coloring. Weve seen a few great online tools for learning how to use the manual settings on a camera before, Read more Read. In life, nothing is ever colored perfectly, and spots of suspiciously similar pixels in a photo might be evidence of a doctored photo, according to former Adobe executive Kevin Connor. Poor cloning also leaves behind duplicate artifacts, like clouds, or even fingers in the worst offenders. Obvious giveaways, to be sure. EXIF Data is Your Friend. After you pore over a photo for edits, you still might not be convinced. Thats when you should take a look at the photographs EXIF data, metadata embedded in a photograph when its taken. Cameras store metadata in photos associated with the make and model of camera, settings used to make the photo including ISO, focus, and shutter speed among other pieces of information. Photo editing tools and photo copying may remove bits of metadata, or add metadata indicating the photo has been modified. A lack of metadata often means it was removed, making it harder to identify the source of the image and verify its validity. If someone is trying to pass off a disingenuous photograph as true and its lacking metadata, be wary of its source. Sites like Exifdata and Metapicz are web based options for checking the EXIF data of your photos. Suspect metadata you should look for often includes the date the image was created, which could be the day the modified photo was created rather than the day it was taken.