Un-crop?

[sponger246]

I could have sworn that I read somewhere that it is possible to uncrop images because the extra information is never really deleated, just hidden. Has anyone else heard of this? If so, do you know how?

Thanks

[UnknownUser]

Hmm...Ive never heard of this

[loj58]

you can only "un-crop" an image with the edit>undo or the history pallet.... once the image is saved and the history of its original size is nolonger in the history pallet.... its cropped

[profeivan]

Ok, but if you have a layered file -in which you have pasted some other images-, you can show all the layer's content by choosing Image>Reveal All. Another option for cropping is this: with the crop tool selected, just check in the Control bar (the one at the top) the option Hide, that way the image isn't really cropped just hidden.

[emreka]

I believe it is possible to uncrop jpeg files at some cases. recently an ex-child star, what was her name, was a victim of this,her myspace photos (cropped from nude photos) were uncropped and there you go, she is nude, she had no idea.

[Old Geezer]

'Cropped' in this context has a different connotation to that used in Photoshop.
It would be Cut & Pasted or Cloned from another image. If it was on something like My Space or Facebook it would not be a Layered document so the only info would be what you could see.

[ShooBee MC]

If a photo is cropped (partially cut out),there are a few ways of uncropping it :

- repeating pixels with healing brush or spot healing brush

- comparing the original or the same image from the newspapers,or from anywhere else

- buying non-commercial software that is used by CSI,military,FBI and CIA for photoreconstruction and/or face detection (costs over 100 000 $)

[NEMESIS]

- buying non-commercial software that is used by CSI,military,FBI and CIA for photoreconstruction and/or face detection (costs over 100 000 $)

And how you can buy it if is non commercial? And how do you know that cost over 100 000$? You work for some secret service agency?

:D

[ShooBee MC]

And how you can buy it if is non commercial? And how do you know that cost over 100 000$? You work for some secret service agency?

:D

Non-commercial (in this context) = made for special purposes and special people or organizations.But it can be bought-out from the right people on the right positions ;)

I know the price because I had a chance to visit a CSI photo-video lab during my stay at a friend from USA who works there as a multimedia expert,and the opportunity to see the program at work.

Fabulous and powerfull "toy",but the price is...outrageous.:(

[The Peckham Pouncer]

Are you talking about the 'Encase' stuff from Guidence software?..its very good

[ShooBee MC]

Are you talking about the 'Encase' stuff from Guidence software?..its very good

One of the programs I saw in action,but this is not the one.
I am talking about a set of tools such as Sirius,Praetorian and Apeiron,parts of the most expensive state-of-the-art pack of photomanipulation software nowadays.

There are multiple manufacturers (programmers) who work for the same IT consortium specialized for police,military and other branches,and a group of them created that software.