How do I prove I did not fake my digital pics with Adobe Photoshop?

Question

I took some pics that contain some paranormal content. Everyone says there to good to be tru and I faked them with Adobe...I did not!!!...How do I go about proving this?

Answer 1

rdenig_male - you did mean the 1980s for digital photography, right (not the 1920s??) Even still, skilled retouchers have been altering photographs since the mid 1800s.

One possible way to demonstrate that your photos are genuine is to allow people to view the raw files (hopefully you have those!) with exif information (camera data, time of exposure, lens, etc.) Raw files are unedited data files containing everything captured by the camera at the time of the exposure.

I suppose even those could be faked, but it is much more difficult.

Answer 2

With very great difficulty. Even long before the advent of digital photgraphy in the 1920's, photographs circulated of some young girls with fairies called the Cottingley Fairies. For many years they were accepted as untouched, even by people such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is only within the last 20 years or so that they have been proved to be fakes. You are being asked to prove a negative (which is always said to be impossible), i.e. that your pictures are NOT faked. If you maintain they are not, it is for those making that assertion to prove that they have been manipulated in an imaging program.

Karl, I missed a comma - I surely know that there was no digital photography (or digital anything) in the 1920s. The Cottingley Fairies pics were taken in the 1920s. Sorry for not making myself clear

Answer 3

There are experts that can review these types of pics. By determining shadows and such, they can make a detrmination. Your best bet (FREE!) would be to send them to a reputable paranoral organizations let them do as they wish- post on their website or whatever.