Here's another. Appears to be a forged introduction picture.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@moquinn3/come-euro-trippin-with-me
When you look at the picture with the "Hello Steemit" paper in it, you'll notice that the shading of the paper seems a bit weird. To me, it doesn't look natural.
So, I viewed the metadata of the image to see if there were traces of anything and sure enough photoshop has left traces.
See for yourself: http://regex.info/exif.cgi?dummy=on&imgurl=http://i.imgsafe.org/803425704c.jpg
I suppose the user could have processed their image in photoshop, but why? Any ideas?
Definitely faked! Well spotted, I have flogged and encouraged others to do so.
Please flag as well...
Awesome site by the way!
Cg
Yep, there's another case.. :/
Why? To make quick profit...
Man I should really use that tool that shows traces in the future, I thought it was real in that thread... lesson learned.
Great job, Ben!
I am not sure how you and the others here have concluded this is a fake. There are certainly lots of reason as to why a Blogger would own and use PhotoShop regularly with every single image they post. I know I certainly use PhotoShop on every image I post. BLoggers do this for lots of reasons. Make yourself look thinner, more tan, erase a pimple, remove red-eye flash, cropping, color correction... There are plenty of legit reasons to use PhotoShop in a blog.
In my opinion the gradation of light to shadow from left to right matches the outdoors to indoors transition. She is out the window and as you get more out of the window you will naturally have more light and as you get closer to inside it will be a bit darker.
I think that using photoshop to manipulate a photo isn't out of the norm since I regularly will import a scanned image to photoshop rather than use the software that came with the scanner or will just drag and drop a picture from my camera in to PS to crop it, reduce it's size, etc. If it's from a raw file I will surely have to convert it in some app so it's going to get manipulated in something like lightroom or whatever. I'm sure many others are the same.
I agree that it certainly could be faked, but it's pretty well done if it is and couldn't say with any certainty this one is.