Kate Middleton and the retouched photo: how are we going to live with image manipulations?. Photographic manipulation for spurious purposes, even by official sources, is inherent to the photographic medium itself.

In an attempt to recover lost credibility, new tools are already being designed to mark the traceability of each image. The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) was founded at the end of 2019 by the company Adobe, responsible among others for Photoshop, a well-known image processing program.