Last July the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released a picture of a missile test.  It turned out the picture had been photo shopped (new verb alert) to show more missiles than there really were.  There are lots of other examples of large changes to pictures that have been discovered there may be many more that changed minds but weren’t truthful.  What can be done?  Probably nothing.  Pixels can be made to lie.  This was also true with paint.  Gods and patrons were often more beautiful in their portraits than the facts.

How much airbrushing or adjusting color is allowed before a photograph is no longer a photograph and has become a “digital creation” or a “digital distortion”?