Francisco Perez Trigueros, from Spain's ruling Popular Party, waded into the ongoing row over Gibraltar, the British territory at the foot of southern Spain, by publishing a mocked up image on his Facebook page. The Photoshopped picture showed a Spanish Army battalion marching across Gibraltar’s runway beneath three fighter jets. The image also showed a Spanish flag flying over the British territory and an Osborne bull — the black silouhette that has become Spain’s unofficial national symbol — installed on the Rock.
Before the days of Photoshop, manipulaters combined multiple images in the darkroom. This print purports to show Ulysses S. Grant astride a horse, in front of the troops at City Point, Virginia. Originally the horse and the body belonged to Major General Alexander M. McCook. The head shot comes from a famous photo of Grant at Cold Harbor.
North Korea's government has been manipulating images for over a decade. In 2008 it was reported that an image of Kim Jong-il, posing with the North Korean army, was a fake. In the photo, the shadow cast by his calves ran a different direction from that of the soldiers on either side of him, while a black line running along the strand on which the soldiers were position disappeared when it got to Kim.
This suspect photograph appears to show a number of similar-looking hovercraft landing on a beach somewhere in North Korea.
This combination picture of two images from KCNA shows a limousine with a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il leading his funeral procession in Pyongyang. In the top picture released by Kyodo, a group of men clustered around what looks like a video camera is seen on the left side of the picture. In the bottom picture which was sent directly to Reuters by KCNA, the group is missing. Reuters now believes the bottom picture was altered by KCNA. The reason for the apparent photo alteration is unclear, although the doctored image appears slightly tidier than the original.
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A photograph released by the Iranian news service in 2008 shows three missiles streaking into the air while a fourth remains on the launcher during a test-firing in an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert on July 9, 2008. An altered version of this image was published by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards news website, Sepah News, adding a fourth successfully launched missile in place of the ground launcher.
This image was used to show how heavy the traffic is on the 'peripherique' in Paris. Unfortunately someone photoshopped some cars travelling in the wrong direction.
In 2010 Egypt's state-run newspaper was criticised after it altered a photograph to suggest President Hosni Mubarak was leading the Middle East peace talks. The photograph, which appeared in Al-Ahram, the country’s most widely circulated newspaper, showed Mr Mubarak walking on a red carpet ahead of the US, Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders. The original image shows Barack Obama leading the way ahead of the three other leaders, with Mr Mubarak trailing behind. The photograph was taken at the White House when talks were formally re-launched on September 1. The doctored image appeared above an article called The Way to Sharm el-Sheikh on page six of al-Ahram on Tuesday September 14.
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In 2009 Spain's spy chief Alberto Saiz resigned amid allegations that he used taxpayers' money to pay for hunting and fishing trips in exotic locations. Spanish newspaper El Mundo published a front-page photograph apparently showing Mr Saiz hauling a large fish on to a boat off Senegal. The paper went on to allege that intelligence agents had doctored one version of the photograph, replacing Mr Saiz's face with that of a colleague...standing a few feet away.
Officials in Toronto felt that the family in this group shot didn't reflect the area's ethnic mix. So they ineptly pasted a stock image of a smiling black man over the father's face.
