In case you couldn't figure it out

[kierthos]

The boxed off area is what "alerted" me, in, oh, about five seconds, that something was wrong with the pic. Of couse, I use Photoshop practically every day at work.

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[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I thought the cloud of smoke near the top left corner was the best/worst part.

[knifesmile.livejournal.com]

Looking at the picture again, the top of the adjacent smoke cloud also looks Clonebrushed. Like the photo was originally shorter or something so they just made a horizontal block first, then went upward. It has the same telltale patches of strangely-coloured pixels and pattern repetition. Anyone who has ever used Photoshop for any purpose should recognise at least some of the editing on sight; fuck, I use it for art rather than photo manipulation and it was still immediately obvious. I noticed the stuff outside your red box before the red box itself. (As an artist, you learn to spot Dodge-Burn shading/cheating very quickly. It is the milk of the lazy.) The only way I can imagine that this got through is that the person doing photo approvals must have gotten a huge block of similar photos all at once and just got into the rote button-pushing habit after two hundred burning Mideasts too many. An excellent reminder of the need to take breaks.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... The other cloud of smoke is bad too, but I first noticed the one on the left. I do consider it the worst example in the photo. I mean, the other cloud of smoke is bad too, but it's not quite as bad. At least to me.