The Camera Never Lies, but the Software Can

WHEN John Knoll created Photoshop in 1989, he knew he was designing an image-editing program that could be used in good ways and bad.

Who is he?

• Photoshop

• his brother

• John Knoll

• photo manipulation

But even Mr. Knoll, who wrote the software with his brother, Tom, was unprepared for how peculiar photo manipulation would become. ''When we worked on it, mostly we saw the possibilities, the cool things,'' said Mr. Knoll, 58. Who are we?

• John Knoll

• Tom Knoll

• good ways

• John and Tom Knoll

But even Mr. Knoll, who wrote the software with his brother, Tom, was unprepared for how peculiar photo manipulation would become. ''When we worked on it, mostly we saw the possibilities, the cool things,'' said Mr. Knoll, 58. It refers to__

• good ways

• Photoshop

• photo manipulation

• possibilities

The same tools that can be used to crop, retouch and otherwise edit digital images can be used just as easily to distort, alter and fabricate them. Them refers to__

• crop, retouch

• digital images

• distort, alter and fabricate

• same tools

''Once this kind of technology was only available to people who could spend $1,000 on software,'' said Mr. Knoll, who now works for Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company. ''Now it is available to everyone, even those who want to use it for calumny.'' It refers to __

• this kind of technology

• $1,000

• Industrial Light and Magic

• the special effects company

A shark attacking a British Navy diver as he escapes up a ladder to a helicopter. Who is he?

• Family

• national hobby

• Hurricane Lili

• a British Navy diver

Hippolyte Bayard, one of the earliest photographers, staged a picture of himself as a drowned man because he thought his work was not given proper recognition by the French government. He refers to __

• John Knoll

• antelope

• jackrabbit

• Hyppolyte Bayard

an online repository and debunker of urban legends and hoaxes, including some composite photos, said that sometimes fake images strike a chord because they reflect a certain reality. Who are they?

• modified photos

• a 90-pound cat

• David and Barbara Mikkelson

• fake images

Images can also create their own version of reality. David King, author of ''The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia'', said that point was brought home to him years ago by a well-known 1920 photograph of Lenin with the writer Maxim Gorky. Him refers to __

• Lenin

• David King

• Maxim Gorky

• Amsterdam

Mr. King found the original print of the photo in an antiquarian bookshop in Amsterdam and saw that it contained more than 20 other people. ''They were all wiped out,'' he said. The word They refers to __

• Lenin and Gorky

• Davis, Lenin, and Gorky

• more than 20 people

• Mr. Davis