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Post date: Aug 2, 2010 1:52:35 PM

Whether it's Obama on the beach

or the impossibly flawless skin of this month's glossy cover girl, any picture can now be digitally altered to

tell an entirely different story. In the age of the

airbrush, can we ever really believe our eyes?

Professor Hany Farid

"Fakery is a loaded word - I prefer alteration or manipulation," he said. "It's not always intended to be malicious." His website features a large gallery of published images that aren't quite what they seem.

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Image manipulation expert Ric Bradley airbrushes

Zoe Kleinman Video-source: bbc.co.uk