International Crisis: North Korea Is Getting Even Worse At Photoshop
from the fake-it-until-you-make-it dept
There’s something of a saying that goes “fake it ’til you make it.” The idea is that you look and act as though you’ve already achieved some goal. For instance, let’s say you want to graduate from that annoying weird nation all the other nations put up with but kind of hate to a big boy nation where everyone respects and fears you. Well, North Korea has been faking it ’til they make it. The problem is that they suck at faking it. They fake being an existential threat to America using video game footage and soundtracks. But threatening America is the big time, requiring big, complicated faking-it efforts. What about the little stuff? Say, head of party Kim Jong-un’s required appearance for the opening of a children’s hospital?
Er, that’s an interesting picture. I really like the way the people in the picture pop, you know? Perhaps it’s because of the colors, or maybe it’s because this is one of the worst attempts at photoshopping I’ve ever seen.
But did you look at the shadows and the lighting? The figures appear to be superimposed—something that internet commenters in China were quick to notice. Online in neighboring Japan, amused internet commenters showed how easy it was to add individuals to this scene.
Oh well, back to being the weird kid, North Korea. Maybe when you learn to lie like the rest of the world you can come back and play with our toys.
Filed Under: north korea, photoshop, propaganda
Comments on “International Crisis: North Korea Is Getting Even Worse At Photoshop”
Maybe he’s got a green screen.
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Found the original image
http://i.imgur.com/1ALE43G.jpg
Somebody should write an addon that automatically runs noise analysis on internet images to see if they were edited or not.
The easiest way to do it is just to increase the filters values that are used to reduce noise to accentuate the already present ones.
2 different images have two different type of noise and they will jump out when exaggerated.
Who is really there?
I can tell at least 3 of them is PS-ed into the pic. But how about the others?
Or is that everyone in the pic was not there, all PS-ed?
Just curious…
Re: Who is really there?
Open source image forensics for all.
http://www.imageforensic.org/
Re: Who is really there?
The sky was edited, the building is different too, and most of them had been retouched.
Used imageforensic(online, with open source code available under the name Ghiro) tool and fotoforensics(online) to see it.
http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=adfc5c550d646f89f915b7f443a76bf5bc0fc58b.255667
Read the tutorials to learn how to interpret the images generated.
http://fotoforensics.com/tutorial.php
Supreme Leader's pants
This is probably just me, but if I were the Supreme Leader of a country, I’d get pants that fit me. Or I’d at least get them hemmed.
I can tell it’s a fake. Because of the pixels… and the fact that Kim’s head is a raptor.
http://i.imgur.com/BnelFcl.jpg
It stands out as being photoshopped because the background resolution is different than the figures in the foreground.
You see this a lot with people that are starting 3D graphics as they tend to make a figure and then use a wallpaper for the background. It is readily seen what was done for the same reason. The 3D graphic is of much higher resolution than the wallpaper in jpg.
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The sky and people are of low quality, the vegetation seems to be original and the building is of different quality from the rest.
To do it like them you should get a high quality background and put low quality objects on top.
http://imageedited.com/
Results-
Image Edited?
Probably
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Almost forgot this is a good one as well, but there are no results. Still it’s easy to use just read their little guide.
http://29a.ch/sandbox/2012/imageerrorlevelanalysis/
Those grey suits are really becoming, I can see why the Onion called him sexiest leader.
It’s almost worth moving to N. Korea to wear one.
They all must be vampires, because they’re not casting any shadows on the ground.
Seen worse
I have seen worse, especially in the US when the government leaders give speeches about how they represent the people. Someone always Photoshop civilians being there when really it is big corporate CEO`s.
Careful...
…Dances With Wolves was a movie senominous with gorgeous backdrops that people thought were a blue screen due to color..
No way
It’s not fake! It’s, um… a fill flash! Yeah…
I sense a Meme coming on.
That crowd will be appearing all sorts of places. I request a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball image when someone gets started, an Alligator park in the background and a group shot with the Teapublicans in the house.
They are using a flash
The picture isn’t photoshopped. The photographer is using a powerful flash to fill in the shadows even though it is a daylight scene. It’s a common technique used by high fashion photographers, but is used less in the US because the result looks “odd” to most people.
Re: They are using a flash
That flash is probably polarized too since it affects image quality only in certain regions of the image.
Re: They are using a flash
Iv seen this happen before..
Extra FLASH to get rid of the shadows..
but something is abit off in the picture..
For those that think its PS…
Do you know about PICTURE GRAINING from film?? then Digitizing, its weird..
Re: Re: They are using a flash
We don’t think, we know it is a PS.
The noise types don’t match and the ELA(Error Level Analysis) also show different areas with different image quality.
Uncertain
Not sure about this. It looks initially like too much fill-in flash but it certainly does look a bit odd, even allowing for that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk
North korean funk for those who havent seen
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