Photoshopping the Weather 
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Washington Post Capitol Weather Gang
Fake or real? As*
pointed out by PBS, it’s a question being asked about more and more pictures in this age of digital photography and advanced image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop.
It turns out that weather photos are often the victim of “photoshopping” — the term now popularly used to describe the manipulation of photos beyond mundane tweaks in color, contrast and the like, often for the purpose of deception. One example that has*
circulated widely*across the Internet since 2002 is the above picture, which purports to be a triple waterspout descending from the rainbands of Hurricane Lili as it approached Louisiana in early October 1992.
Like tornadoes, waterspouts often form in families, and in fact ships at sea have reported as many as 30 in one day, with as many as nine seen forming in a 90-minute period. A classic and spectacular example of multiple waterspouts –
four funnels*at the same time — was taken by an Italian sailor in 1999 while on a cruise in the Adriatic Sea. However, it became apparent that the above photo was a fake when it was discovered that an identical shot, except with only one funnel, appeared in the Fall 2001 issue of*
Anchor Lines.
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