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Slideshow: Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries

New authentication software could help news agencies -- stung by doctored images -- detect digital darkroom trickery. By Randy Dotinga.
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The clone stamp detection tool highlights areas of the image where there is improbable sameness, revealing the cloned section and its origin. The very small area highlighted in the clouds are the sameness/pattern created by nature.Photo: Courtesy of Adobe

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Here is the original, unedited version.

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This image has been edited with the clone stamp tool. How can you tell?

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