The Photo Looks Great, but It's Not Real

A worker at the Topps baseball card company digitally altered the photograph on Derek Jeter's card, adding President Bush and deceased Yankee Mickey Mantle to the background. Topps told the Associated Press that the changes were a gag, but that the card got into circulation. The Post asked Adam Pratt, a senior systems engineer at Adobe, to point out the telltale signs the image is a fake.

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