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Originally posted by Laokin
reply to post by OrganicAnagram33
Sorry bud, but -- without even blowing up the image you can see the pixel mismatch, which can ONLY happen as a result of digital manipulation.
Here is how it was done, Somebody was really standing there, in that pose... and the picture was taken, it was then dodged and burned, and has a pure white "glow" effect added to the layer (that is the person after effects).
This is not even open to debate, If you sent me a picture of that house with 10 people standing in front of it, in about 10 minutes I can make all 10 people look exactly like that.
I'm betting that is the ladies son, or her herself standing there....
Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
reply to post by Laokin
Sorry bud, but I know you're wrong. Nobody was standing there and its not manipulation, I suggest you read through the thread.
Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
Here's the house without the anomaly:
...and here's the picture with it:
Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
Thank you for your posts Drunkenparrot. I imagine it was imported onto the computer and they used a similar program (or one with far less capability) in order to view the pictures. Would such a stamp show up even if it were say, windows picture viewer?
Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
reply to post by Laokin
OK, it would have had to be a program other than windows picture viewer then, thank you.
Originally posted by Xen0m0rpH
At first I was extremely skeptic myself.
I am a graphic artist, I work mainly with photoshop and know this could be done in several ways.
What I found when I originally looked at it was that they looked similar, but I discerned between looking at the window on the first floor in the lower left hand corner they were different.
The clouds there in the window have moved slightly, and the shadows and colors are shown a little better in the second photo.
I was still very skeptic of the second photo though. I opened it in Photoshop CS2 and an easy way to tell if something has been edited is by the transparency in edges of objects. Usually, when you look at the edges they have a very soft edge to it.
What I've done here is a simple new layer using a reddish color I ran my mouse in a general shape around the figure (which I originally thought was two people holding each other, a simple image that could've been overlaid and created this shape). I then changed the new layer I made to a layer mode called "Color Burn," which uses the colors in the layer above and adds them in extremely exaggerated highs and lows adding the colors, and this is what I got.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/8cee192f83e6.jpg[/atsimg]
What you see is a shape, a human figure in clothes. I would say it's a man anywhere from late 50's up in a suit.
Now, the outline though is stark and you can see it is 1 pixel line with a very defined value. If it was a 'shop' the colors would fade into each other.
Here's a closer look. I cropped the image and blew it up 300%.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/9f29269c38d2.jpg[/atsimg]
Just what I found, not what it appears to be at all.
A very interesting photo you have here. Maybe the owner come back to see his home?
edit on 21-5-2011 by Xen0m0rpH because: New comment, enlarged crop added