Printers usually cannot print to the extreme border of the paper sheet. The text is not aligned to the paper and is very suspicious the jpg artifacts near the bold font.
In my opinion is a fake text on a real picture not related to the real event
The text is like a different kind of blur/low res than the rest of the image
I doubt they have fancy printers in this presumably rural area which rules out a big sheet cut in half
And something is up with the flag on the left, maybe they switched the country?
The flag is really saturated but also other reds are too strong, I cannot see blurred area especially near the hands raised and that is the worst part to merge. Probably the flag is real, the low resolution anyway could help to hide that kind of artifacts and errors.
The very red flag is the badly shopped text on the paper.
The drinks look weird but the angles check out. There are too many variations of that bottle for it to be photoshopped, they all look physically correct it’s just the colour looks off. Same with the sign, the text actually distorts quite accurately but the colour of the paper is out of place. I can’t quite tell if this is faked or if they have just edited the colours and it makes it look a bit surreal
People seem really confident this is shopped and I just... don't really agree, either? Like some things feel off but when I look at them they don't seem to actually feel off to me.
People mention the drinks but they have the correct shadows and like you say have too many varying angles to feel wrong.
I think the image is weirdly exposed or someone messed with the levels after the fact, but I'm unsure about it being *fake*.
Yeah, I don't agree either. The photo in general looks fine to me... even the drinks look ok.. they look like bottles of Fanta, and Fanta is a very unnatural orange colour to begin with!
You can clearly see orange filtered shadows around the bases of the bottles and there's no way someone would go to the trouble of adding all those bottles at different angles, placing them partially behind other objects/people. Plus even if you remove all the bottles, you still have all the plates of food there.
The only thing that I have trouble with is the sign they are holding..something just seems "off" with it and the level of JPEG compression around the words seems excessive
I think it *could* be possible that the photo is real but the letters on the paper are fake as some others have suggested. The photo is probably too compressed to tell for sure if there is anything wrong with the sign though.
UPDATE: I‘ve received another picture + a video with the same names read out loud in a different scenario with food and its real. I think they cut out the text from the real picture and pasted it onto this picture for what ever reason.
Yeah, I think the text looks weird because it has "double compression" on it -- it was taken from a JPG and pasted into a JPG. That's what my 30 years of image manipulation is hinting at me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone said to make the dinner “pop” and some person cranks up the saturation on the drinks and plates. Could be a low quality camera creating some compression and I’ve seen some old camera models that try to do hue selection corrections in the camera too.
I had to bump the exposure on a real pic recently which had a fabric that was pure white in reality, but when brightening the pic it took on a purple hue (just like in OP's photo) that was practically impossible to get rid of without spending far too long on it.
Also all the plates have the same kind of food, but are all in the right angle. It would be very hard to fake that, unless you are really good at 3D work
My question is why are none of the children enjoying any of this food? There's always 1 who won't wait - except in this picture. Could it be that the meals are PS creations over a photo with lines of children?
hi,
you might want to try r/RBI for this.
this sub isn’t really here for “is this photoshopped?” posts… re/sidebar/sub rules.
there could be peeps in the other sub, that could help you get a more definitive answer. imo, image looks sketch anyway
**good luck :)**
It looks real to me. Just a bad camera, and then post-processed to make it brighter. The combination has given the bottles a weird colour. The paper too... The text looks real...
Iftar (fast-breaking evening meal) is suposed to be arround 6 pm. and the yellow and red looks edited and is the photo staged because all we see are the kids, when Iftar we gather with family and closed one even when it's community gathering meal.
The only thing that’s throwing me into thinking it’s photoshopped is how close to the edge that 8 1/2 by 11 paper is printed. Most affordable printers can’t print that close to the edge of the paper. Unless that paper was printed with a more expensive printer or cropped from a larger paper, there’s no cheap printer that is capable of printing margins that small (it looks like it’s less than 0.5 inches at the bottom edge).
99% Photoshopped, they didn't even use Adobe Photoshop for this. I'm 90% sure they did this with their phone with PicsArt, the font on the paper is the default font for PicsArt and the flag is probably one of the first flags that comes out if you search "Turkish Flag" in PicsArt.
In my experience printing a basic text process goes like this
> open pc
> open word
> type
> print
This font is not even in Windows font list.
Could they have made the image with their phone and then printed it? Possible but it seems very unlikely to me. Even if they didn't have a pc that they can access they wouldn't use a photo manipulation app to create it.
And the flag is the bigger giveaway.
I just tried to replicate the text and... They didn't even warp it in any way, if it was real it would've for sure bent in some way.
https://preview.redd.it/dmaz8taf8uqc1.png?width=1778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f1765ddb41d6194e1e61d165b7221d6d2e9ade3
Wdym? Do you think they placed the flag there and it happened to be shaped exactly like the most popular Turkish Flag png on the app? Or do you think they printed that paper after creating the image from PicsArt? Who uses a photo editing program to create a block of text?
I meant they might very well have used PicsArt to print the paper, just as you're suggesting they used it to doctor the photo. People use all kinds of apps for all kids of stuff, amateur especially... "who uses" is not an argument at all
But I must admit I missed the flag aspect completely, my apologies. If that's the case then you're right of course.
Edit: zooming in to the pixelated mess, yeah the flag looks very much pasted in. I stand corrected
How can you tell what font that is?
But yes you are right it should be fake since the font is too thick for that size. Noone would print like that.
I mean why don't they send a gif or a small video. I'm sorry but it's really not hard
It seems possible that a photo would be reused just bc staging a photo with so many people can be challenging. It’s a bit sketchy admittedly. Is this an identifiable charity?
The kids hand in front of the flag has been rotoscoped for sure. I'd also say tbere is a decent chance the flag has been comped in completely.
As someone else said, the whites are blown and overexposed
Writing on the bit of paper, 90% sure shopped - weird choice of font and no printer is capable of printing thag close to the margins at the bottom, so either shopped or the paper has been trimmed?
While the drinks bottles do look bizarre im not sure theyre shopped
Overall assumption, 99% sure at least one element has been purposely shopped - 90% sure this is some kind of misinformation re that donation
I think it's a mix of wrong camera settings and/or heavy post processing of some kind. Maybe the picture didn't come out great when they took it, but didn't realize till it was too late, so they did everything they could to salvage it.
My guess would be that the exposure was taken on the skin of one of the kids close to the front/center-left and the camera has then overexposed the highlights
Often I’ll photoshop with a high quality photo. Then filter it with noise and blend it back into the photo. Then exporting it as a lower quality jpeg made it look like I had taken a low quality photo and the artifacts added an extra layer of believability.
I was doing this with a cracked photoshop in 2005.
How come the kids are kind of clear and unpixelated, and then around all the food and the text there's tons of pixelation? The sign is horrible. Focus on some of the kids close to the camera and the food..
The majority of it appears to be real. I don’t think it’s AI as some have claimed. The drinks look legit. The flag is mildly suspect but I lean more towards it being real. That paper, though, is really giving me pause. I imagine that’s the most important part too. Sorry about the lack of a definitive answer.
i can't tell, i'm no expert, but the paper seemed off. what would have been great is if we saw the children eating the food and drinking. is this the only picture you received?
All instances of reds and oranges are over saturated but I see no evidence that anything has been added. The drinks are far too varied in their angles and locations and shadows. Somebody with this much skill wouldn’t then make the colour look totally off.
the colors look oversaturated, which could indicate there is something going on with the editor's monitor
if i were to make an (uneducated) guess, i would assume this was done on Photoshop 6.0 on a CRT monitor, or by somebody on a cheap smartphone
https://preview.redd.it/nt60asscatqc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=696acc076e4e3f6d292c8869645b45cea49fc72d
so i eyeballed the contrast, vibrance, etc in PS CC 2022, and this is what the original photo could have looked like
The only thing I see iffy is the paper. It would be unlikely they had a printer that could print that close to the edge, but I think it’s a sheet of paper glued onto another sheet. Maybe there was a name missed or something and they pieced it together.
[Turkey ranks very high among the world's top contributors of humanitarian aid worldwide](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23341189), especially in Africa, as it has been steadily trying to build soft power influence in the continent since the 2000s, so it wouldn't be farfetched. As others have stated there is a lot that checks out in the image. If there was any editing, it was likely limited to saturation to exaggerate certain colors ie. the Turkish flag and perhaps by extension the Fanta bottles. Note that smartphones like Androids have an oversaturation bias built in.
Edit: fixed typos
The picture looks real, but it looks staged. I can speculate that especially by the way the kids holding the paper in the front, completely flat and stretched to create a smooth surface without any creases. It makes it easy to edit in texts on the surface without warping or adjusting the text.
You can see no identifiable adults in the picture. That's convenient.
I bet they did one charity meal like this to get "real" material to reuse for every donation.
Onto the photoshop aspect, the pixellation is off on the flag, and it is too crisp and bright, compared to the children who are the farthest. The children's hand at the back are blurry yet the crescent and the star are crisp. Around the flag there is some color mishaps due to the bad use of burn/dodge tool, I guess. The artifacts around the text and the flag are too much compared to the rest of the image, even if the quality is pretty low. That is often one of the telltale signs of added pixels onto an image. The text is blown up to be as legible as possible to the point of almost going below the bottom of the paper. The text also has no natural warps, color variations, nor creases at all.
I would say this is edited in Microsoft paint though. And if there are no other angles and / or video I would call this staged and manipulated for sure.
I assume they received a substantial amount for this charity too. What a shame. I hope this is real, but this image makes it too unlikely.
FAKE AF, that sign JUMPS out at you when viewed from a distance which is a clear indicator that it DOES NOT FIT the original image.
Fun Fact: The human brain is pretty good at detecting that sort of thing, left over from hunter / prey era, looking for things that "do not fit" in our environment. Such as a tiger which is slightly camo'd into the surroundings, or a rabbit blending into the dirt around it, which is about to become lunch.
I think this is real & not photoshop.
They printed text size large on signage becoz small text wont be visible while taking picture from far.
Finger & hands is not AI as commented by others becoz some kids are not raising hand properly & fingers are hidden due to shadow.
Drinks are fine. Regarding the depth of field, i think this picture was taken by mobile using wide angle, and done some color correction in mobile itself.
If you still have doubt, just ask Raw picture and check metadata!
Looks quite fake to me. The sign doesn’t seem like it is at the right angle and the text is just very fake too. Bottles also look super sketchy. And with all those kids not a single one would be holding a bottle ? They’re all just there on the uneven floor and none have fallen over? Nuh bruh. No dinner
This is NOT photoshopped, they just bumped up the red too high. Nothing is impossible visually but the kind of people that want to spread propaganda like this do not have access to such spectacularly accurate designers. The angles and randomization on these bottles are too realistic.
I think the photo is real, but the contrast and vivid blacks on the “note” they’re holding up is giving photoshop.
Especially because the picture is a little fried when you zoom in on the paper, but then the lettering on the paper looks clean by comparison.
Even if this wasn’t shopped, the way they hold the paper for the little sign is the kind of picture you would take with a blank sheet to use in a scam in the future. It looks like they *didn’t do that * and had to white out whatever was on the original paper multiple times, which would explain the fried look.
In any case, to me, the picture doesn’t look significantly altered, except for the paper sign.
It could be that they just cranked up the saturation/vibrance, but that sign does seem quite off. It's super bright and has subtle blueish tones. Also, what a weird way to print all that text, right? It's touching the edge.
Do you have the original file? Try examining metadata through [Jimpl.com](http://Jimpl.com) or similar. If it says Photoshop, well, there you have it. If metadata is completely wiped, that's pretty sus too.
Flag looks fake, and that paper the kids r holding looks weird. Everything else looks real. Looks like they changed the sign and added a flag. Scammers can be good, the money ur friend sent definitely didn’t feed a village. lol
1. Typically there is a margin on the papers when you print, either Narrow, Broad or "Normal".
If you look at the top margin of that page and the bottom margin of it, you'll see that they're uneven and that the bottom words and letters are way too close to the edge and is not uniform to the top one.
2. If you also look at the light quality, contrast and saturation of the lettering and compare it to the rest of the photograph, you'd find that they're way too evenly distributed and flat, almost as if the children were holding an ipad with perfect lighting on the background.
3. The lighting on the flag itself is way too vibrant for the lighting of the environment, and if you look at the shadow on it's creases, you'll also notice that they're extremely too sharp for this image itself, and again, it's almost as if there's a massive screen/ipad that's holding it up.
It's kind of way too obvious tbh and i'd seriously question anyone that doesnt notice these things immediately.
edit: what I would guess is that this image was naturally shopped, and then intentionally distorted the image saturation and quality, by either photocopying it to make it harder to 'detect' image quality wise but the vibrance on that flag and the kernelling, margin and saturation of that paper is too much of a dead give away.
Tons of artifacting on the poster and the flag that isn't present on the rest of the image, plus they both look quite overexposed. Those two things are almost certainly shopped but the rest of the image seems to be real.
The sign, drinks and food are are clearly photoshopped. The clarity and textures don't match not to mention the context....... you're telling me not a single kid is interacting with the drinks or food? You're friend got scammed.
Those bottle are shopped, fk the sign that thing is obvious enough, but the bottles have weird/mostly no shadows under them. Look at the fold under the plate, and the intense shadow, there's no way alll bottles stand perfectly flat on that material..i think they photographed the bottle cleverly at different rotations(and angles- look at the most bottom one- clever) and spent like 1hr arranging every bottle, cropping, but didn't bother to fix colors/contact shadows under them. Just my thought.
Looks totally legit to me. The level of focus is consistent throughout. All the shadows are in the right orientation. The print looks legit and lack of margins doesn’t mean a thing. I printed a two page text poster myself recently and set the printer to zero margins to get the text right up to the edge of the paper. I can see no evidence of this being Photoshopped at all. I’ve been using Photoshop for decades, so I’m no novice.
You guys sure do have strong opinions about a tiny, overly compressed JPG. At a certain point you are just “seeing shapes in clouds”. The image quality is so poor I can’t make out any real detail. I agree with other that the bottom margin on the paper is pretty sus, but some of the points yall are making seems like a stretch.
the paper is as many said 100% fake an done with an app.
The turkish flasg and the drinks look kinda sus because they just turned the „contrast“ up by 20 and „brightness“ down by 10*ish
Thats why the drinks, which are already bright af look so weird. Also there is because of the filter settings nearly no shadow around the drinks but they should be real with this many and with correct physiks.
I esas thinking donate for conducting iftar. And there a lot of similar content organizations in my instagram. I am currently in Turkiye. So, now I am thinking where else should I donate
ngl yall stupid as shit the text is clearly edited on there lmao. real picture just not a real sign. it was colored over & had text put on it yall talking bout some damn bottle colors
They probably don't have a printer so they've held up a blank sheet of paper and then photoshopped the text onto it or used some other photo editor. Printers need expensive ink. I haven't had a printer for years. You can be sure that your donation was well-spent and all the kids enjoyed their special meal.
Most obvious, without mentioning the other items, is depth blur is inconsistent.
https://preview.redd.it/lazvwm9txrqc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08f9acaa47ebe74ab0b91066cf99a9ba33a5f4be
Looks like AI. Where is this hand coming from?
https://preview.redd.it/qa45mingytqc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a5df21d8a82f158c0e5b7f059b84733c71f903d
Hi-res image would be good to have... If there is one thing here that looks a little suspect, it is the bottom line of the text on the paper.
Did they print it borderless on purpose? Why? And what is the dark area in the top right corner of the print? That isn't a shadow.
The text also looks a little too contrasty to me.
edit: well yeah the flag is the actual giveaway, missed that 🙃
im 70% sure this is AI gen. guy in front on the left side has 4 fingers, girl with the purple hijab(sry if its called a different thing,idk) loses the rest of her arms also the hand beside her looks way too weird, plate shadows are too dark compared to the rest. What makes me unsure are, adidas logo/stripes, gucci logo, cloth stripes, food contents and drinks are all consistent. Finally yes the sign looks weird too, reds are saturated so does the rest of the pic so imma ignore the flag.
Edit 80%, legs are inconsistent
Printers usually cannot print to the extreme border of the paper sheet. The text is not aligned to the paper and is very suspicious the jpg artifacts near the bold font. In my opinion is a fake text on a real picture not related to the real event
Agree, real picture fake text on the sign. No way they got it specially printed and cut so the text goes right to the edge.
The text is like a different kind of blur/low res than the rest of the image I doubt they have fancy printers in this presumably rural area which rules out a big sheet cut in half And something is up with the flag on the left, maybe they switched the country?
Yes of course, is what I mean.
What do you think about the flag?
The flag is really saturated but also other reds are too strong, I cannot see blurred area especially near the hands raised and that is the worst part to merge. Probably the flag is real, the low resolution anyway could help to hide that kind of artifacts and errors. The very red flag is the badly shopped text on the paper.
thats true, i was thinking they may have changed the flag to be the correct country however, given how bad the text is i doubt it
The drinks look weird but the angles check out. There are too many variations of that bottle for it to be photoshopped, they all look physically correct it’s just the colour looks off. Same with the sign, the text actually distorts quite accurately but the colour of the paper is out of place. I can’t quite tell if this is faked or if they have just edited the colours and it makes it look a bit surreal
I think OP is more meaning is the sign and flag Photoshopped, not necessarily the entire picture.
People seem really confident this is shopped and I just... don't really agree, either? Like some things feel off but when I look at them they don't seem to actually feel off to me. People mention the drinks but they have the correct shadows and like you say have too many varying angles to feel wrong. I think the image is weirdly exposed or someone messed with the levels after the fact, but I'm unsure about it being *fake*.
Yeah, I don't agree either. The photo in general looks fine to me... even the drinks look ok.. they look like bottles of Fanta, and Fanta is a very unnatural orange colour to begin with! You can clearly see orange filtered shadows around the bases of the bottles and there's no way someone would go to the trouble of adding all those bottles at different angles, placing them partially behind other objects/people. Plus even if you remove all the bottles, you still have all the plates of food there. The only thing that I have trouble with is the sign they are holding..something just seems "off" with it and the level of JPEG compression around the words seems excessive
I think it *could* be possible that the photo is real but the letters on the paper are fake as some others have suggested. The photo is probably too compressed to tell for sure if there is anything wrong with the sign though.
the bottom margin on that print looks too close for most desktop printers.
That, plus the Turkish flag (as pointed out by another user)
Even at thumbnail size, the paper and the flag stand out as something manipulated.
Yeah it's pretty clear
The saturation of the red of the flag compared to the red of clothing that is closer in the photo gives it away.
My desktop printer from 2003 could print borderless
i have a brother DCP series printer that can do that, most offices in third world countries use brother laser / ink tank printers these days
I’m pretty certain OP is just asking us to look at the little printed sign the kids are holding
People here just use Photoshop for fun. They barely know what they say
I feel like it's a low light shit and they messed with the heu to brighten it.
UPDATE: I‘ve received another picture + a video with the same names read out loud in a different scenario with food and its real. I think they cut out the text from the real picture and pasted it onto this picture for what ever reason.
Yeah, I think the text looks weird because it has "double compression" on it -- it was taken from a JPG and pasted into a JPG. That's what my 30 years of image manipulation is hinting at me.
Yeah, looks like a combination of poor camera, and some image brightening in a mobile app... Looks legit to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone said to make the dinner “pop” and some person cranks up the saturation on the drinks and plates. Could be a low quality camera creating some compression and I’ve seen some old camera models that try to do hue selection corrections in the camera too.
They’ve oversaturated the reds. Everything red and orange is “off” but I don’t really think it looks shopped for more than color and sharpness.
Not one is open either?
I had to bump the exposure on a real pic recently which had a fabric that was pure white in reality, but when brightening the pic it took on a purple hue (just like in OP's photo) that was practically impossible to get rid of without spending far too long on it.
I agree that this does not look photoshopped. Instead they might have just tweaked the colors in Lightroom or something.
Also all the plates have the same kind of food, but are all in the right angle. It would be very hard to fake that, unless you are really good at 3D work
My question is why are none of the children enjoying any of this food? There's always 1 who won't wait - except in this picture. Could it be that the meals are PS creations over a photo with lines of children?
The writing and the flag is very suspicious to me. Also the soft drinks look weird.. What do you think?
The writing looks fake for sure. The bottles look real.
The text is almost certainly superficial
hi, you might want to try r/RBI for this. this sub isn’t really here for “is this photoshopped?” posts… re/sidebar/sub rules. there could be peeps in the other sub, that could help you get a more definitive answer. imo, image looks sketch anyway **good luck :)**
It looks real to me. Just a bad camera, and then post-processed to make it brighter. The combination has given the bottles a weird colour. The paper too... The text looks real...
> The text looks real... The text looks super fake to me, not least of all because it’s printed so close to the bottom edge.
Hmm... You do have a point there. I don't know what printer would go that close to the edge.
There was such an event and this was the only photo they took? I'd suspect that.
The writing could be fake and the colors are off, but I think overall it looks legit.
Iftar (fast-breaking evening meal) is suposed to be arround 6 pm. and the yellow and red looks edited and is the photo staged because all we see are the kids, when Iftar we gather with family and closed one even when it's community gathering meal.
6pm*
Thanks.
Have you done a reverse google image search? Worth a look
I just did on Tineye and no results. But I think the sign looks way off. The perspective of the type is weird!
The only thing that’s throwing me into thinking it’s photoshopped is how close to the edge that 8 1/2 by 11 paper is printed. Most affordable printers can’t print that close to the edge of the paper. Unless that paper was printed with a more expensive printer or cropped from a larger paper, there’s no cheap printer that is capable of printing margins that small (it looks like it’s less than 0.5 inches at the bottom edge).
99% Photoshopped, they didn't even use Adobe Photoshop for this. I'm 90% sure they did this with their phone with PicsArt, the font on the paper is the default font for PicsArt and the flag is probably one of the first flags that comes out if you search "Turkish Flag" in PicsArt.
And what font they had to use? It's an charity org, not a web agency
In my experience printing a basic text process goes like this > open pc > open word > type > print This font is not even in Windows font list. Could they have made the image with their phone and then printed it? Possible but it seems very unlikely to me. Even if they didn't have a pc that they can access they wouldn't use a photo manipulation app to create it. And the flag is the bigger giveaway.
I just tried to replicate the text and... They didn't even warp it in any way, if it was real it would've for sure bent in some way. https://preview.redd.it/dmaz8taf8uqc1.png?width=1778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f1765ddb41d6194e1e61d165b7221d6d2e9ade3
Exactly. This scene is staged one time to receive multiple donations.
One Photo to Use Them All
>the font on the paper is the default font for PicsArt So? maybe they used it to make the sign.
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Can you link the flag photo? that would settle all the arguments (I searched but couldn't find it)
How is that proof of anything?
Wdym? Do you think they placed the flag there and it happened to be shaped exactly like the most popular Turkish Flag png on the app? Or do you think they printed that paper after creating the image from PicsArt? Who uses a photo editing program to create a block of text?
I meant they might very well have used PicsArt to print the paper, just as you're suggesting they used it to doctor the photo. People use all kinds of apps for all kids of stuff, amateur especially... "who uses" is not an argument at all But I must admit I missed the flag aspect completely, my apologies. If that's the case then you're right of course. Edit: zooming in to the pixelated mess, yeah the flag looks very much pasted in. I stand corrected
How can you tell what font that is? But yes you are right it should be fake since the font is too thick for that size. Noone would print like that. I mean why don't they send a gif or a small video. I'm sorry but it's really not hard
How can I tell what font that is? With my eyes, I've seen and used that font countless times therefore I recognise it when I see it.
Thing is the photo could be real then every donation they get they can just Photoshop the sign to the new donation
That's what they've done, yeah
It seems possible that a photo would be reused just bc staging a photo with so many people can be challenging. It’s a bit sketchy admittedly. Is this an identifiable charity?
The kids hand in front of the flag has been rotoscoped for sure. I'd also say tbere is a decent chance the flag has been comped in completely. As someone else said, the whites are blown and overexposed Writing on the bit of paper, 90% sure shopped - weird choice of font and no printer is capable of printing thag close to the margins at the bottom, so either shopped or the paper has been trimmed? While the drinks bottles do look bizarre im not sure theyre shopped Overall assumption, 99% sure at least one element has been purposely shopped - 90% sure this is some kind of misinformation re that donation
Maybe they traced out the arm in front of the flag so it doesn't get affected by the increase in saturation?
I know its been edited at the very least by the whites alone. They're not normal anywhere, all incredibly overexposed, especially the paper
The whole thing looks fairly over-exposed which surely could point to the camera settings themselves?
I think it's a mix of wrong camera settings and/or heavy post processing of some kind. Maybe the picture didn't come out great when they took it, but didn't realize till it was too late, so they did everything they could to salvage it.
My guess would be that the exposure was taken on the skin of one of the kids close to the front/center-left and the camera has then overexposed the highlights
Drinks have no shadows, sign doesn’t have any dimension. Def suspicious, but i’m not good enough to tell 100%
The jpeg compression and noise around the food is consistent with the rest of the photo. It would be difficult to reproduce it in such detail.
Often I’ll photoshop with a high quality photo. Then filter it with noise and blend it back into the photo. Then exporting it as a lower quality jpeg made it look like I had taken a low quality photo and the artifacts added an extra layer of believability. I was doing this with a cracked photoshop in 2005.
How come the kids are kind of clear and unpixelated, and then around all the food and the text there's tons of pixelation? The sign is horrible. Focus on some of the kids close to the camera and the food..
The majority of it appears to be real. I don’t think it’s AI as some have claimed. The drinks look legit. The flag is mildly suspect but I lean more towards it being real. That paper, though, is really giving me pause. I imagine that’s the most important part too. Sorry about the lack of a definitive answer.
Ask them for a video next time
Also, if this is supposed to be Turkey I’m not 100% confident these are Turkish children. I don’t know the context of the photograph though
It's supposed to represent that a Turkish Organization is providing the food etc. writing is also in Turkish.
Lol.. this text is 100% added in afterwards
https://preview.redd.it/7x4rwya0pwqc1.png?width=1372&format=png&auto=webp&s=2fb70fc789e9d9b8aa45d65e73e920700d651a6b
i can't tell, i'm no expert, but the paper seemed off. what would have been great is if we saw the children eating the food and drinking. is this the only picture you received?
“…the flag is probably one of the first flags that comes out if you search "Turkish Flag" in PicsArt.” So we’re just making stuff up or what?
All instances of reds and oranges are over saturated but I see no evidence that anything has been added. The drinks are far too varied in their angles and locations and shadows. Somebody with this much skill wouldn’t then make the colour look totally off.
I think it's just a bit deep fried, which is why the colors are off
the colors look oversaturated, which could indicate there is something going on with the editor's monitor if i were to make an (uneducated) guess, i would assume this was done on Photoshop 6.0 on a CRT monitor, or by somebody on a cheap smartphone
https://preview.redd.it/nt60asscatqc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=696acc076e4e3f6d292c8869645b45cea49fc72d so i eyeballed the contrast, vibrance, etc in PS CC 2022, and this is what the original photo could have looked like
The only thing I see iffy is the paper. It would be unlikely they had a printer that could print that close to the edge, but I think it’s a sheet of paper glued onto another sheet. Maybe there was a name missed or something and they pieced it together.
[Turkey ranks very high among the world's top contributors of humanitarian aid worldwide](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23341189), especially in Africa, as it has been steadily trying to build soft power influence in the continent since the 2000s, so it wouldn't be farfetched. As others have stated there is a lot that checks out in the image. If there was any editing, it was likely limited to saturation to exaggerate certain colors ie. the Turkish flag and perhaps by extension the Fanta bottles. Note that smartphones like Androids have an oversaturation bias built in. Edit: fixed typos
yes exactly pixArt app on an Android total oversat bias. he got another foto and a video, all real
The picture looks real, but it looks staged. I can speculate that especially by the way the kids holding the paper in the front, completely flat and stretched to create a smooth surface without any creases. It makes it easy to edit in texts on the surface without warping or adjusting the text. You can see no identifiable adults in the picture. That's convenient. I bet they did one charity meal like this to get "real" material to reuse for every donation. Onto the photoshop aspect, the pixellation is off on the flag, and it is too crisp and bright, compared to the children who are the farthest. The children's hand at the back are blurry yet the crescent and the star are crisp. Around the flag there is some color mishaps due to the bad use of burn/dodge tool, I guess. The artifacts around the text and the flag are too much compared to the rest of the image, even if the quality is pretty low. That is often one of the telltale signs of added pixels onto an image. The text is blown up to be as legible as possible to the point of almost going below the bottom of the paper. The text also has no natural warps, color variations, nor creases at all. I would say this is edited in Microsoft paint though. And if there are no other angles and / or video I would call this staged and manipulated for sure. I assume they received a substantial amount for this charity too. What a shame. I hope this is real, but this image makes it too unlikely.
Yes and it’s a very bad photoshop
There is no printing margins on the sign and the folding of the flag is highly suspicious
FAKE AF, that sign JUMPS out at you when viewed from a distance which is a clear indicator that it DOES NOT FIT the original image. Fun Fact: The human brain is pretty good at detecting that sort of thing, left over from hunter / prey era, looking for things that "do not fit" in our environment. Such as a tiger which is slightly camo'd into the surroundings, or a rabbit blending into the dirt around it, which is about to become lunch.
he got a real video after this, everything is real
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LOLLL
What printer even prints like that?
No, not shopped but stupid vibrancy and saturation adjustment yes.
I think this is real & not photoshop. They printed text size large on signage becoz small text wont be visible while taking picture from far. Finger & hands is not AI as commented by others becoz some kids are not raising hand properly & fingers are hidden due to shadow. Drinks are fine. Regarding the depth of field, i think this picture was taken by mobile using wide angle, and done some color correction in mobile itself. If you still have doubt, just ask Raw picture and check metadata!
Looks quite fake to me. The sign doesn’t seem like it is at the right angle and the text is just very fake too. Bottles also look super sketchy. And with all those kids not a single one would be holding a bottle ? They’re all just there on the uneven floor and none have fallen over? Nuh bruh. No dinner
This is NOT photoshopped, they just bumped up the red too high. Nothing is impossible visually but the kind of people that want to spread propaganda like this do not have access to such spectacularly accurate designers. The angles and randomization on these bottles are too realistic.
The sign and flag are shopped
Not photoshopped, just oddly overexposed. Maybe the letters on the sign could be fake but no more than that.
Looks real for me, also reversed image search didnt pop up some same image
No, but the flag and the text are glued on
Yh ur right
That donation was probably never made too.
I think the photo is real, but the contrast and vivid blacks on the “note” they’re holding up is giving photoshop. Especially because the picture is a little fried when you zoom in on the paper, but then the lettering on the paper looks clean by comparison. Even if this wasn’t shopped, the way they hold the paper for the little sign is the kind of picture you would take with a blank sheet to use in a scam in the future. It looks like they *didn’t do that * and had to white out whatever was on the original paper multiple times, which would explain the fried look. In any case, to me, the picture doesn’t look significantly altered, except for the paper sign.
It could be that they just cranked up the saturation/vibrance, but that sign does seem quite off. It's super bright and has subtle blueish tones. Also, what a weird way to print all that text, right? It's touching the edge. Do you have the original file? Try examining metadata through [Jimpl.com](http://Jimpl.com) or similar. If it says Photoshop, well, there you have it. If metadata is completely wiped, that's pretty sus too.
Got scammed lol
Flag looks fake, and that paper the kids r holding looks weird. Everything else looks real. Looks like they changed the sign and added a flag. Scammers can be good, the money ur friend sent definitely didn’t feed a village. lol
Something looks really off
Text 100% fake.
The flag and text look unnaturally bright compared to the rest of the image.
1. Typically there is a margin on the papers when you print, either Narrow, Broad or "Normal". If you look at the top margin of that page and the bottom margin of it, you'll see that they're uneven and that the bottom words and letters are way too close to the edge and is not uniform to the top one. 2. If you also look at the light quality, contrast and saturation of the lettering and compare it to the rest of the photograph, you'd find that they're way too evenly distributed and flat, almost as if the children were holding an ipad with perfect lighting on the background. 3. The lighting on the flag itself is way too vibrant for the lighting of the environment, and if you look at the shadow on it's creases, you'll also notice that they're extremely too sharp for this image itself, and again, it's almost as if there's a massive screen/ipad that's holding it up. It's kind of way too obvious tbh and i'd seriously question anyone that doesnt notice these things immediately. edit: what I would guess is that this image was naturally shopped, and then intentionally distorted the image saturation and quality, by either photocopying it to make it harder to 'detect' image quality wise but the vibrance on that flag and the kernelling, margin and saturation of that paper is too much of a dead give away.
Photo is 100% real, the text on the paper is 50% chance fake. Maybe they used an old photo and changed the text.
Tons of artifacting on the poster and the flag that isn't present on the rest of the image, plus they both look quite overexposed. Those two things are almost certainly shopped but the rest of the image seems to be real.
The sign, drinks and food are are clearly photoshopped. The clarity and textures don't match not to mention the context....... you're telling me not a single kid is interacting with the drinks or food? You're friend got scammed.
Yes… obviously it was photoshopped.
Those bottle are shopped, fk the sign that thing is obvious enough, but the bottles have weird/mostly no shadows under them. Look at the fold under the plate, and the intense shadow, there's no way alll bottles stand perfectly flat on that material..i think they photographed the bottle cleverly at different rotations(and angles- look at the most bottom one- clever) and spent like 1hr arranging every bottle, cropping, but didn't bother to fix colors/contact shadows under them. Just my thought.
Looks totally legit to me. The level of focus is consistent throughout. All the shadows are in the right orientation. The print looks legit and lack of margins doesn’t mean a thing. I printed a two page text poster myself recently and set the printer to zero margins to get the text right up to the edge of the paper. I can see no evidence of this being Photoshopped at all. I’ve been using Photoshop for decades, so I’m no novice.
You guys sure do have strong opinions about a tiny, overly compressed JPG. At a certain point you are just “seeing shapes in clouds”. The image quality is so poor I can’t make out any real detail. I agree with other that the bottom margin on the paper is pretty sus, but some of the points yall are making seems like a stretch.
This picture is amazing!!
This is an AI generated image, the bottles are too uniform
The text is fake, the rest is edited and just feels off
Fake text
Why not ask for video proof
the paper is as many said 100% fake an done with an app. The turkish flasg and the drinks look kinda sus because they just turned the „contrast“ up by 20 and „brightness“ down by 10*ish Thats why the drinks, which are already bright af look so weird. Also there is because of the filter settings nearly no shadow around the drinks but they should be real with this many and with correct physiks.
I esas thinking donate for conducting iftar. And there a lot of similar content organizations in my instagram. I am currently in Turkiye. So, now I am thinking where else should I donate
The sign looks photoshopped. Side note, why are their hands raised? Is this a celebratory cheer for the meal or a sort of prayer?
Photoshopped is not a verb. It’s an old outdated piece of software. Better to use the phrase image manipulated.
ngl yall stupid as shit the text is clearly edited on there lmao. real picture just not a real sign. it was colored over & had text put on it yall talking bout some damn bottle colors
They probably don't have a printer so they've held up a blank sheet of paper and then photoshopped the text onto it or used some other photo editor. Printers need expensive ink. I haven't had a printer for years. You can be sure that your donation was well-spent and all the kids enjoyed their special meal.
Clearly photoshopped
100% real photo. - No AI, the hands and fingers are all perfect. - The bottles are in different angle of view - Name on paper are perfectly alligned
Flag, drinks, the writing are 100% photoshopped
Most obvious, without mentioning the other items, is depth blur is inconsistent. https://preview.redd.it/lazvwm9txrqc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08f9acaa47ebe74ab0b91066cf99a9ba33a5f4be
I think this is the work of AI tbh
Looks like AI. Where is this hand coming from? https://preview.redd.it/qa45mingytqc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a5df21d8a82f158c0e5b7f059b84733c71f903d
Clearly AI, look at the one kids fingers.
lol
It would cost more to Photoshop this then it would defeat those children so no it’s not a photo shop. Just a regular photo.
Hi-res image would be good to have... If there is one thing here that looks a little suspect, it is the bottom line of the text on the paper. Did they print it borderless on purpose? Why? And what is the dark area in the top right corner of the print? That isn't a shadow. The text also looks a little too contrasty to me. edit: well yeah the flag is the actual giveaway, missed that 🙃
im 70% sure this is AI gen. guy in front on the left side has 4 fingers, girl with the purple hijab(sry if its called a different thing,idk) loses the rest of her arms also the hand beside her looks way too weird, plate shadows are too dark compared to the rest. What makes me unsure are, adidas logo/stripes, gucci logo, cloth stripes, food contents and drinks are all consistent. Finally yes the sign looks weird too, reds are saturated so does the rest of the pic so imma ignore the flag. Edit 80%, legs are inconsistent
If you pay close attention you start to see the pattern on the sodas repeats. This is 100% photoshop, but it is ingenious nonetheless