Show me the Photoshop fakes you've encountered, please?
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I've encountered quite a few Photoshop fakes while I was reviewing, and I've documented some of them. I know other people have as well. I'd like to use this thread to gather data from people who have spotted obvious Photoshop fakes. My plan is to curate a document about how to spot fakes so that other people can see the examples and learn to recognize them.
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I dropped one in another thread yesterday.
Here is a full document of photoshop fakes. Some of them got EXIF Metadata on them
EXIF reader: http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
Example:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N4ooKP5F67PcjMQJBzCj6WBgckD_862HIoYh_r54ZoAw6Qh0ppJbHVVLknjKgySe8Pio75UyKTAzQBucG7zGeUDr1p4=s0
Just right-click, download and put it into the program
I didn't see it in game, but there was a guy that posted on the Wayfarer subreddit looking for feedback on his submission of a LFL near a community mailbox cluster shortly after posting on a Photoshop subreddit asking for help Photoshopping in a LFL by the mailboxes, and another thread there asking if people thought the photoshopped image would pass.
When confronted he first denied it but later said he "needed" to do it because his parents wouldn't give him data on his cellphone so he could only play on Wi-Fi.
Here's a couple that I have come across recently:
The free library one uses the image from the Wikipedia page on Little Free Libraries.
I've started to get quite sceptical about some images lately. I often run an image check using Google Lens is is surprising how many people are using third party photos and passing them of as their own. It is a simple easy check to make.
I know I shouldn't wish for coal, but seeing some of the faked stops people get makes me wish there was a photoshop faker near me because it seems much more interesting to review than the boring coal I get. I'm sure the moment one became active in my area I would immediately eat my words though.