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TorchTheWitch

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45. it's shopped and pretty badly done
Sun Jan 13, 2013, 03:08 AM
Jan 2013

Zoom in on the photo in and many areas are very obviously photoshopped. Just looking at the photo without zooming in at all there are several pretty glaring issues...

One, the light green strap around the guy is not part of the baby carrier - it's the strap for whatever that pouch is under the baby's butt.

Two, they didn't fill in the baby's hair inside the trigger (whatever that roundish thing is called that the trigger finger goes in to pull the trigger.

Three, the edge of the baby's arm where it's supposed to be behind the man's arm is lighter than even the man's arm when it should be in shadow.

Four, fake greenery was badly painted in at the baby's bum and higher up at the baby's back.

Five, the baby's hair was badly painted in with no color graduation at the hairline.

Six, there's two big white splotches that should have been filled in with greenery - one is where the guy's forearm meets the baby's head and another between his nose and thumb of the trigger hand.

They're far more glaringly obvious when you zoom in on the photo, but they're obvious enough just looking at the photo. The baby was photoshopped into the photo of some dude aiming a gun with a pouch of some sort hanging from a thick strap that's supposed to fool people into believing that strap is part of the baby carrier when it isn't, and there actually IS no strap holding on the baby.


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Please tell me this is photo shopped [View all] proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 OP
Bet its not. /nt Drale Jan 2013 #1
It is. WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2013 #39
I doubt it Skittles Jan 2013 #2
you got to at least hope brucefan Jan 2013 #3
My friend who posted this on Facebook said: proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #9
i think it was not photoshopped d_r Jan 2013 #4
Probably not. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #5
Deafness will be the LEAST of them! Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #17
You were reading my mind. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #22
Looks legit. See the laid back weighting on his stance and the babby carrier straps. OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2013 #6
Not to me it doesn't... Bigmack Jan 2013 #23
Looks like a Remington 597 semi-automatic FarCenter Jan 2013 #40
For the sake of that child's hearing, I hope so! femmocrat Jan 2013 #7
That would be another gun. Mrs. Overall Jan 2013 #8
If it is fake, they certainly did a convincing Jenoch Jan 2013 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #11
I didn't like the words either proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #15
*Whoooooooooosh* 99Forever Jan 2013 #16
I edited the picture proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #25
Amazing image, no doubt. cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #27
The photoshopped graphic is out of context Jenoch Jan 2013 #29
Yeah, I was going to say the same. WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2013 #35
Part of my problem is that I do this for real. cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #42
I hope he didn't fire. Hearing loss and all. Recursion Jan 2013 #12
Could be staged oppo. Kurovski Jan 2013 #13
Shit like that makes me hope reincarnation isn't real. Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #26
How do you know it isn't real? Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #28
I am imagining him gollygee Jan 2013 #18
If it's not (and I don't believe it is)-this country has finally gone to hell Boomerproud Jan 2013 #19
No earplugs for that infant? TransitJohn Jan 2013 #20
I looked to see of the "adult" had earplugs sad-cafe Jan 2013 #31
I hope it is photoshopped. Hearing damage would likely result if he fired. NutmegYankee Jan 2013 #21
Photoshopped? Not likely. 99Forever Jan 2013 #24
I believe it is a picture of an anti-gun control sick phuck underthematrix Jan 2013 #30
Posed, not photoshopped jmowreader Jan 2013 #32
hard to see for sure but I *think* I see his foreground shoulder BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #33
If it is, it was done by an expert WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2013 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author aikoaiko Jan 2013 #36
Photoshop - everyone knows that Armalite K-238 is a LEFT HAND rifle jpak Jan 2013 #37
That ass should be charged with child abuse for making his baby deaf. appleannie1 Jan 2013 #38
I amend my opinion that it was shopped. cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #41
It was Photoshopped rightsideout Jan 2013 #43
Is that a pellet gun? Does anyone have an effing clue anymore? bluerum Jan 2013 #44
it's shopped and pretty badly done TorchTheWitch Jan 2013 #45
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