[Blogger]

The man in the hat has a halo of fine pixels around him, like he has been implanted into the picture.

[jwalburg]

I magnified a copy in PSP but can't see any difference in pixel size between the hat and those around the hat. The thing is, there's no reason for faking more smoke or weird smoke. Except exaggeration. Maybe that's enough for Adnan.

[carolinablonde]

My guess is that the foreground (the man in the hat and the rubble at his feet) and the background (the burning building) are from two separate pictures.

The perspective of the two images is very different. The background image is much more of an upward vertical view.

[Spiff]

The man in the hat has a halo of fine pixels around him, like he has been implanted into the picture.

I blew it up in my image manipulation software and what I see is consistant with the type of artifacting you get when compressing an imaging using something like the JPEG (.jpg) standard. The fine pixels are artifacts of the compression, not of photoshopping.

No, I'm not defending Hajj or Reuters as their photoshopping and pro-Islamofascist terrorist fraud is intolerable. I just want to report my observations on the issue that you brought up about the specific photo you referenced.