[usmcobra]

I use Firefox with image zoom, once I blow it up to 400% the manipulated pixels appear as square blocks five times bigger then the other pixels around them.

The area around the guy in the hat has some fine detail work done to it as if they paid special attention to getting smoke around him right.

[jwalburg]

So, it's preatty clear that both photos are fake jobs, eh? I wondered. The smoke in the second one looked a lot like that from the first one.

[King Prout]

dang, I spoke too soon.
original:

detail at 1000x:

that is NOT common edge-slop one sees in resized images. far too big, far too regular.

what is WRONG with the counterfeiter?
has he never heard of working at 1000x, then doing serial soften, despeckle, and median-cut filtrations before resizing the image down to final dimensions?