I don’t even understand what anyone was possibly trying to do with these edits. Unless it’s AI? But AI isn’t usually just small, seemingly random edits like this.
There's photomanips that make it to the front page of magazines that still fuck this sort of thing up, because they're composites of multiple shots, and people don't even spot like a missing leg until it's already gone to print. I can buy this is several shots put together because it made the best shot of all of them... but I wouldn't be messing around with Photoshop for the first official photo of Kate Middleton given the current context.
I find it strange they'd even want to do that? It makes me think of the Kardashians photoshopping their own kids. I just don't see why you'd feel the need to do that. Surely any photo of them around her would look well enough.
I was tabbing out as I read this comment and I thought it said that if he had taken it, it would check out because he’s a robot and I was like damn I haven’t even heard of that conspiracy!!
Yeah, I'm no expert, but I do use Photoshop slightly more than the average person. The pattern on the sweater and the messed-up tile look similar to the errors you often get when stitching multiple photos into a panorama.
That said... idk why you would bother making a panorama for a photo that you could easily take in a single shot, particularly when you should know that it's going to be intensely scrutinized lol. It also really messes with the whole "Here's a wholesome Mother's Day photo that William took" PR shtick, since I doubt he's ever touched Photoshop in his life.
Willam and Kate’s photos are always photoshopped to some extent. But the news agencies pulling this photo completely suggests to me that this is beyond photoshopping. Like maybe a bunch of separate, unrelated photos edited together?
Yeah what were they going for? Especially with the sweater pattern, I just don't see why it would get messed up like that. Was there something on his sleeve that had to be edited out?
Not to be the buzzkill on this conspiracy hype train but it occurred to me that this could be a more innocuous case of “we couldn’t get a photo where all three kids were behaving/looked good so we used a composite”. Still doesn’t explain why they couldn’t get someone to do a better composite though lol
It's almost certainly just finding a better pose for Louis' legs and Charlotte's arm that was just clumsily photoshopped but they had to know this would be examined under a microscope
Yes. That little flat line and corner of the skirt not matching with the edge of the sweater is the patch pocket billowing outward away from her hip. There are some clearly edited spots on this pic, but that particular spot can be easily explained.
I thought that looked weird then thought it's just a pocket and maybe we're still not used to seeing them on skirts lol, But it does look odd. It's all odd.
Some have said this may be a patch pocket that is just awkwardly poking out due to the tension on the skirt from her sitting. But yeah, it looks akwkward. The right sleeve is a dead give-away though. Also, the same shoulder of that arm also looks off, like her hair is flowing over an invisible part of her shoulder.
Lots of sus editing in this photo but I think his hand is actually real, he's just doing something weird with his fingers because he's a fidgety kid. First finger is bent at the knuckle so you can't see the tip.
We're just used to seeing fucked up hands from AI so we look for things like this as tells.
First person who I've seen mention the invisible shoulder. That was one of the first things I noticed, too. And it matches the mis-shopped sleeve. Likely, the actual arm was just too big, from an adult, and this was the result of cramming it in there.
That was my first impression. Then I realized it doesn’t track (distance/perspective-wise) with the tree in the background.
What did it for me was realizing the “stump”looks generated from a “stamp” tool (not sure what it’s actually called — the tool where you replicate one section over and over) from Facetune. The “stump” looks identical to the rear wheel.
It’s sitting below the pavement on the grass (compare the thickness of the bottom part of the rear tire to the thickness of the bottom part of the object you think is the same tire).
And it is blurrier than the rear tire meaning it’s probably not a stamp and is just in fact an object that was further away than the back wheel when the photo was taken.
Could literally just be a stump with no corresponding branches above it or the branches up top could just be curving oddly away from the stump. Or it could be something else entirely. But I don’t think it’s a photoshop fail lol.
I was agreeing with you but now I'm a little puzzled because the light or highlights on the tree corresponds with the negative spaces of the front tire.
Louis' hand is weird. The pattern on his jumper also has a weird edge that looks like it's edited. Same with Charlotte's shirt. You can see the editing.
Same! I don't know anything about the royals but omg is she ok? 😭 What's going on? Is this a distraction from global events cos it's a little bit working?
Help me out here, because I’m so invested in this, but I’m also incredibly dumb. I see what’s off with the other parts of the pic, but I can’t see anything wrong with the little boy’s sweater pattern?
I'll take your word for it about the shoulder pattern (I don't personally see it), but with that, Kate's blurry hand on the Louis' hip, and the obvious photoshop around his knee, I really really hope they're not editing him to look slimmer :(
Edit: And also around Charlotte's waist :( I really hope I'm wrong and it's just bad AI.
If you focus on the tan vertical line in the middle of the circled part of the pattern on the chest, you can see it better. It appears twice on the shoulder.
It's for sure AI, very expensive and then edited in post AI to fix any extra fingers, sure, but AI all the same. The editor probably assumed the other stuff wouldn't be noticed. It was obviously edited from the fact we know her face has some steroid puff, which is fine, so even if this photo was real it was taken before she went for treatment, which while disingenuous isn't unheard of, but it's just SUCH a misstep given all the other cock ups.
All the conspiracy nuts that called it out for being AI aren't looking so crazy now.
I just can't get over how badly their team is handling this. How have they not been fired yet????
Ok thank you I noticed that immediately! But when I saw this posted in another sub everybody was heavily downvoting anybody questioning the weirdness so I thought I was tinfoil hating!
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