How second-order spatial convolution highlights artificial sharpening seams, cut-out borders, and digital brush smoothing.
Second-order Laplacian derivative kernels amplify sudden changes in local pixel brightness. When an element is spliced using lasso or magic-wand selection, the border pixels carry abrupt frequency jumps.
Under Laplacian filtering, authentic continuous edges display delicate outlines, while digitally pasted boundaries glow with exaggerated white halos.
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Use 2D Sobel luminance vector gradients to verify whether all subjects and shadows in a photograph converge toward the same light source.
Why converting RGB images into separated luminance and chrominance color spaces exposes manipulation concealed by human visual perception.