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When Photoshop Skills Go Wrong: A Cautionary Tale About Digital Evidence
The Day Photoshop Knowledge Became a Legal Issue I stumbled across a genuinely disturbing story recently that made me put down my coffee and think hard about the responsibility we carry as Photoshop users. Back in 2004, Connecticut’s judicial system created six specific rules governing how digital images could be used as evidence in court. Sounds reasonable, right? The problem? Those rules apparently didn’t prevent a forensic odontologist from doing something pretty wild with composite imagery—and nobody involved seemed to understand what was actually happening.