How To Tell If An Image Is Photoshopped

In the growing list of modern tech skills required for survival, being able to spot a Photoshopped image has to be high on the list. Given the number of blatant fakes and routine Manipulated Outrage we are surrounded by, we all have to increase our savvy when it comes to looking at images online.

There are plenty of useful tips for how to do it, from the more obvious (look for unnatural shadows), to one that I hadn’t considered: doing a reverse Google image search to find similar images. Often this one step will turn up the authentic version of the image you suspect to be fake.