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.
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http://i.imgur.com/1ALE43G.jpg
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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.
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Who is really there?
Or is that everyone in the pic was not there, all PS-ed?
Just curious...
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Re: Who is really there?
http://www.imageforensic.org/
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Re: Who is really there?
Used imageforensic(online, with open source code available under the name Ghiro) tool and fotoforensics(online) to see it.
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Read the tutorials to learn how to interpret the images generated.
http://fotoforensics.com/tutorial.php
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Supreme Leader's pants
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http://i.imgur.com/BnelFcl.jpg
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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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To do it like them you should get a high quality background and put low quality objects on top.
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Results-
Image Edited?
Probably
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http://29a.ch/sandbox/2012/imageerrorlevelanalysis/
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It's almost worth moving to N. Korea to wear one.
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Seen worse
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Careful...
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No way
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I sense a Meme coming on.
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They are using a flash
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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..
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The noise types don't match and the ELA(Error Level Analysis) also show different areas with different image quality.
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Uncertain
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North korean funk for those who havent seen
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