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. Heres how Look for Poor Editing First. Glaring mistakes should be the first way you identify a doctored photo. Romantic Horror Movies The Simpsons` Christmas Message ' title='Romantic Horror Movies The Simpsons` Christmas Message ' />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. Nearly every photo online has been edited in some way, whether through cropping, filtering, compressing, colorcorrecting, or other generally innocuous touchups. But. Bartholomew JoJo Bart Simpson born February 23 1979, also known as El Barto, The boy. 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. Ernest & Celestine Streaming here. 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. Ranked The 5. 0 Best Christmas Themed TV Episodes Ever. Some of TVs greatest holiday episodes are uplifting, some are packed with harsh realities, but the best episodes give us a little bit of everything. Robot Chicken  Robot Chicken Christmas Special 2. When Adult Swim first premiered Robot Chicken, it was a new entirely insane take on all the nerdiest corners of pop culture and the Season 1 Christmas episode did not disappoint. Dragonball Z Christmas remains something of a classic sketch, plus the stop motion animation sends the episode to a place mildly reminiscent of the crazy California Raisins Claymation Christmas special. That 7. 0s Show The Christmas Party. Who could forget the episode that found Eric battling for Donnas affections while Hyde gives her the sweetest, most thoughtful Christmas present while Kitty gets tipsy as State Troopers storm the Forman home to retrieve the Christmas tree Eric chopped down on the side of the highway. Kids will be kids, and those kids needed to use Reds Christmas tree money as beer money, okay New Girl  The 2. This episode gave Jess and her roommates a chance to spend Christmas together while yelling at an entire neighborhood to turn on their spectacular Christmas lights at 3 a. It was the moment that the series ensemble truly started to feel like a family. Its basically a Christmas miracle with Peter Pan collars. Frasier  Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz. Frasier wasnt often sentimental, but one Christmas, when Frasier meets a lovely new lady, the series managed to get to the heart of Frasier and his fathers relationship. When Frasier brings his new girlfriend and her mother over, he promises to pretend to be Jewish so he doesnt upset her mother, obviously this ruse fails in traditional sitcom style and Frasier witnesses his girlfriend and her mother fight, come to a realization, and make up. He tries it with his own father, whos upset over Frasier vetoing his kitschy Christmas decorations, and they fail miserably. Theyre left crying and realizing their squabbles are better buried, which is an oddly adorable, totally unhealthy, and heartwarming little Christmas miracle. Ren and Stimpy  Son of Stimpy. To some, this episode is known as the one that got Ren and Stimpy canceled, thanks to its dark and brutal look at love and family. When Stimpy experiences his first fart he believes it is his child. After searching endlessly for his fart, they reunite at Christmas and Stinky is happy, but decides hes too old to stay with his father. Despite its disgusting animated wrapping, the episode is an oddly real look at family and holidays. All in the Family Ediths Christmas Story. All in the Family had many Christmas episodes and with that came plenty of opportunity for Archie to spew his misinformed ideas while Edith sighed Oh, Archie, but the sweetest Christmas episode might just be Ediths Christmas Story in which Edith has a breast cancer scare at Christmas and attempts to hide it to keep the holiday happy. Instead, Archie finds out and rushes to her side at the hospital. He may have been a backwards son of gun, but when it came down to it, he truly had love for Edith and isnt that what Christmas is all about The Cosby Show Getting to Know You. This isnt explicitly a Christmas episode in fact, many fans of the show maintain the series never had one but the episode delivers two very holiday moments. First, its an opportunity for Cliff Bill Cosby to get to know his daughters new husband. Second, and more adorably, its a time for Cliff to get to know his daughters new step child a tiny Raven Simone whos just learning the concept that men of different ethnicities dress up as Santa at Christmas. Little kids trying to understand Christmas traditionsClassic. LOST The Constant. Its the only time LOST spent significant time on the holidays, and it did so in a big way. On Christmas, star crossed lovers Penny and Desmond finally reunite. For those of us who came to love every single one of the LOST islanders, theres nothing quite as heartwarming as the moment Penny reconciles with her long lost love even if this was the point at which LOSTs time travel really started to get out of hand. Futurama Xmas Story. Futurama is a strange bird, but we knew it had some merit when in its first season, it took the greed and corporate infiltration of Christmas on in a huge way. The concept of a terrifying killer Santa robot, created by a corporation who accidentally programmed him to be too strict in his definitions of naughty and nice is perfect. He deems almost everyone naughty and spends Christmas Eve killing all the naughty folks he comes across. In the end, its Frys generosity a 5. Leela that saves them from the murderous Clause. Despite the corporate monster, they still manage to maintain the true meaning of Christmas. Roseanne White Trash Christmas. Roseanne gave us a few Christmas episodes over the years, but none exemplified the series quite like this one and none as good as their Halloween episodes in which Becky gets a job at Hooters wannabe Bunz in order to put her husband through college. At the same time, Dan bonds with Beckys husband as they work together to put up the gaudiest, cheesiest, white trashiest Christmas decorations they can muster in protest to the neighborhoods new white twinkle lights only rule. The Flintstones  Christmas Flintstone. Christmas needs just a few elements to feel homey Santa, reindeer, and togetherness. This Flintstones episode offers all of these things, except that Fred is Santa filling in for the Big Guy when he comes down with a cold, the reindeer are rein dinos, and Fred almost misses his own Christmas when he spends all night sprinkling every city in the world with Christmas presents. Wait, werent these decidedly BC How I Met Your Mother  How Lily Stole Christmas. This take on the classic story How the Grinch Stole Christmas also turns the push and pull of Marshall and Lilys romance on its head. As Lily is prepping the apartment for her first Christmas since her reunion with Marshall after she ran away to San Francisco and broke his heart, she hears an old message from Ted in which he calls her a Grinch. She hoards all of the Christmas decorations in her tiny, crummy apartment until Ted visits her and tells her he called her a bitch because while he was upset that Marshall was hurting, he was also upset as a friend. Lily banishes him from Christmas and he ends up with his crazy relatives in Staten Island until Lily and the gang show up to rescue him. Who needs weird extended family when youve got friends like these guys The Fresh Prince of Bel Air  Deck the Halls. For his first Christmas in Bel Air, Will wants to make himself feel a little more at home and give his cousin Ashley a taste of real Christmas, so he decorates the Banks home in flashy, non Home Owners Association approved decorations. Naturally, the whole neighborhood which includes Evander Holyfield comes out in protest. Eventually, a group of neighborhood kids comes by to bestow an award for the best Christmas decorations in Bel Air to the Banks and their eye sore because it has the whimsy of a childs idea of Christmas. The HOA gives up the fight and Will chips away at another snobby Bel Air tradition. Its cheesy, but its sweet and ridiculous, just like all of the best Fresh Prince episodes. Scrubs My Own Personal Jesus. Christmas in any hospital is one of the dreariest times of the year, something the show captures with a version of 1. Days of Christmas that replaces the partridge in a pear tree with a drunk who drove into a tree. While J. D. is struggling to accept a miracle patient who woke up from a coma, Turk loses his faith after witnessing the horror in the ER on Christmas Eve. But by episodes end, Turk finds a missing pregnant woman and he and Elliot help deliver her baby, performing a miracle and restoring Turks faith. SNL with Alec Baldwin in 1.