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I agree with you on the logo over the image, PrinceofWaldo. He must be thinking someone will take his photo and use it for their own fraudulent auction, but that's eBay's problem, not his.
Jblonde, no I haven't noticed that. I'll pay attention though. I'm trying to be more discerning when looking at photos now after buying a few things like cleaned coins which I probably should have figured out.

 

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There are several sellers on ebay, whose listings I see on a regular basis that doctor their photos with the blue or green color distortions. I'm not sure what they are using to accomplish this, I just assume it's some kind of uv light filter. They're easy to spot cuz the pics just look overly blue or yellow. This hides scrathes and such on the coin and cleaned coins can be filtered to look like theyre uncleaned. Scary I know. Just gotta be careful.

 

And I hate pics from a scanner, they're always difficult to tell. Usually avoid them all together.

 

I bought this and returned it. It looked nothing like the listing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230789466239?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

 

There are a number of ways to accomplish what has been described as enhanced blues and greens. Any decent photo editing software will do that. But interestingly enough, most of the high-end Canon cameras have a setting right on the camera to saturate the blues and greens. It's a mode that is supposed to be used for photographing on the beach in particular. Makes the water and sky look much more exotic and enticing than it really is, the idea being that your friends will be impressed and envious of your travels...lol..,, It's kind of subtle, but when I read about it in the owners manual a light bulb went off in my head, -that I have seen lots of tropical photos that had what seemed like over saturation in the blues and greens. Two pictures below, one normal, the other with "scenic" mode on a Canon T1i camera. Can you figure out which is which?

 

The one on the left looks a lot brighter.