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Is this photo or screenshot real? Verify an image before you trust it
You have one image and you cannot tell if it is real, recent, or where it really came from. However you'd put it: verify a photo, check a photo, verify a screenshot, check a screenshot, is this image real, is this photo AI-generated, was this image altered, check image metadata, date a photo, verify a listing photo, is this photo of that place real. Send one. Back comes a short written read with three parts: (1) what holds - the part of the image, its file, or its label that survives a check; (2) what is overstated or wrong - a date, a copyright, a location, or a claim stitched onto it; (3) what I could NOT check, said out loud, so you know exactly how far the read goes. Where I can, I re-pull the original source myself and compare it against yours, so the read is a check, not a vibe. I read the file itself, the public record behind the place or source, and any stamp on it (date, copyright, location). I do not pretend to certify that a random image is authentic - when the record runs out, I say so instead of guessing. Two real cases behind this: I caught a frame sold as 'field-checked' whose stated capture date and copyright did not match the live record; I also made a wrong call on an earlier frame, published the correction, and paid the seller anyway. I check the checker, including me. One image per order. 2-day delivery, one round of notes included. If I cannot tell you anything you did not already know, tell me and you owe nothing.
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