[RegulatorCountry]

Selecting with the marquee tool in a square, then sharpening, would produce the same thing. If someone is going to the trouble to render this shape, and place it in an image, they’re going to do a neat silhouette mask and layer it in, not a square cut and paste.

[mnehring]

That’s true.. it just really stands out that it has been modified in some way.

I’m going to try that out on another area of the image and see if the results are the same.

[TexGuy]

Selecting with the marquee tool in a square, then sharpening, would produce the same thing. If someone is going to the trouble to render this shape, and place it in an image, they’re going to do a neat silhouette mask and layer it in, not a square cut and paste.

Probably more likely. Histogram equalization should bring this out rather nicely ...