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1) Shark lunges at helicopter
This striking fake was created by merging two separate images - a US Air Force helicopter on a training exercise in San Francisco, and a great white shark leaping out of the water off the cost of South Africa.
The hoax emerged in 2001, and was later circulated via email with a caption claiming it showed a shark attacking British Navy crew in South Africa, despite the fact that the Golden Gate Bridge is visible in the background.
2) World Trade Centre tourist
This hoax emerged on the internet just weeks after the Sept 11 attack. Although rational assessment of the picture quickly reveals its flaws (how could the tourist not hear the plane? how did his camera survive?), the horror of the scenario and the rawness of America's wounds gave the image a huge emotional impact.
It also sparked a flurry of tongue-in-cheek parodies featuring the same tourist pasted into ever more preposterous situations.
3) Iranian missile test
Tehran's Revolutionary Guards wanted the test firing of nine ballistic missiles in July this year to send a message to the world. So when one of the missiles failed to launch, they released a doctored photo with the faulty launcher removed and one of the successful rockets copied and pasted in its place.
Unfortunately for the Guards the original launch photo, complete with grounded missile, had already been published in an Iranian newspaper, and the crude deception was revealed to great amusement in the West.
4) Ann Widdecombe's mixed messages
Ed Matts, the Tory candidate for Dorset South, hoped a photo of him and popular former minster Ann Widdecombe holding signs calling for tighter immigration controls would endear him to voters ahead of the 2005 general election.
But the plan backfired when it emerged that he had doctored to messages on the signs for his election literature, and that in the original photo the pair were actually holding placards calling for a family of failed asylum seekers to be allowed to stay in Britain.
Ms Widdecombe defended the Tory candidate, saying that she was "happy to be associated with either message".
5) Chairman Mao airbrushes out his former friends
The Chinese Communist leader had no scruples about re-writing history to suit his current circumstances. He arranged to have Po Ku, a former ally with whom he had fallen out, removed from the official version of the photo above.
And Mao's photoshopping tendencies lived on even after his death. This photo of a memorial service held for the leader in 1976 was later altered to remove the so-called "Gang of Four", the political clique who were subsequently charged with treason.
6) Snowball the monster cat
This photo of an enormous cat spread around the world over email in 2000, sometimes accompanied by a background story claiming that the mother of the animal had grown up near a Canadian nuclear lab.
It wasn't until the following year that the man in the photo came forward to admit he'd faked the image on his computer.
Cordell Hauglie had sent the photo to friends as a joke, not expecting it to circulate more widely. The cat did exist, and belonged to Mr Hauglie's daughter, but weighed only 1.5 st.
1) Shark lunges at helicopter
This striking fake was created by merging two separate images - a US Air Force helicopter on a training exercise in San Francisco, and a great white shark leaping out of the water off the cost of South Africa.
The hoax emerged in 2001, and was later circulated via email with a caption claiming it showed a shark attacking British Navy crew in South Africa, despite the fact that the Golden Gate Bridge is visible in the background.
2) World Trade Centre tourist
This hoax emerged on the internet just weeks after the Sept 11 attack. Although rational assessment of the picture quickly reveals its flaws (how could the tourist not hear the plane? how did his camera survive?), the horror of the scenario and the rawness of America's wounds gave the image a huge emotional impact.
It also sparked a flurry of tongue-in-cheek parodies featuring the same tourist pasted into ever more preposterous situations.
3) Iranian missile test
Tehran's Revolutionary Guards wanted the test firing of nine ballistic missiles in July this year to send a message to the world. So when one of the missiles failed to launch, they released a doctored photo with the faulty launcher removed and one of the successful rockets copied and pasted in its place.
Unfortunately for the Guards the original launch photo, complete with grounded missile, had already been published in an Iranian newspaper, and the crude deception was revealed to great amusement in the West.
4) Ann Widdecombe's mixed messages
Ed Matts, the Tory candidate for Dorset South, hoped a photo of him and popular former minster Ann Widdecombe holding signs calling for tighter immigration controls would endear him to voters ahead of the 2005 general election.
But the plan backfired when it emerged that he had doctored to messages on the signs for his election literature, and that in the original photo the pair were actually holding placards calling for a family of failed asylum seekers to be allowed to stay in Britain.
Ms Widdecombe defended the Tory candidate, saying that she was "happy to be associated with either message".
5) Chairman Mao airbrushes out his former friends
The Chinese Communist leader had no scruples about re-writing history to suit his current circumstances. He arranged to have Po Ku, a former ally with whom he had fallen out, removed from the official version of the photo above.
And Mao's photoshopping tendencies lived on even after his death. This photo of a memorial service held for the leader in 1976 was later altered to remove the so-called "Gang of Four", the political clique who were subsequently charged with treason.
6) Snowball the monster cat
This photo of an enormous cat spread around the world over email in 2000, sometimes accompanied by a background story claiming that the mother of the animal had grown up near a Canadian nuclear lab.
It wasn't until the following year that the man in the photo came forward to admit he'd faked the image on his computer.
Cordell Hauglie had sent the photo to friends as a joke, not expecting it to circulate more widely. The cat did exist, and belonged to Mr Hauglie's daughter, but weighed only 1.5 st.
The altered photo
The original
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