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From: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
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Subject: Re: Manipulation of Courtroom Evidence
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Date: 26 Feb 90 07:34:33 GMT
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Alan Sanders comments that "ImageStudio and Digital Darkroom can manipulate 
scanned or direct video input in a seamless fashion. And Adobe Systems has 
just released PhotoShop, which takes the capabilities of this type of 
software to new heights. Of course, none of these programs are intended to 
be used for fraudulent image manipulation. But I agree that the possibilities
are scary."

Alan, if by "fraudulent" you include ad agencies making products look better 
than they are, they most certainly are intended to be used that way.  

Interestingly enough, the CIA has shown interest in ColorStudio and ImageStudio,
not, so they claim, because they would ever try to doctor photographs in this
way, but because they want to be able to understand the doctoring process well
enough to be able to detect the fraudulent images created by others.

J.S.