As the great development of digital photography and relevant post-processing technology, digital image forgery becomes easily in terms of operating thus may be improperly utilized in news photography in which any forgery is strictly prohibited or the other scenario, for instance, as an evidence in the court. Therefore, digital image forgery detection technique is needed. In this paper, attention has been focused on copy-move forgery that one region is copied and then pasted onto other zones to create duplication or cover something in an image. A novel method based on HSV color space feature is proposed and experimental result will be given and it shows the effectiveness and accurateness of proposed methodology. © (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.