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Another thing that’s patently obvious is the position of the hand and arm around Scott. Try to get your hand in that position and check the pitch of your shoulder when you do so.

Then focus on the most obvious manipulation. The smaller boy’s bangs. You think that’s natural, do you? No enlargement is necessary to answer that question.

Neither of these is obviously awry. The arm resting on the other boy's shoulder is bent at the elbow behind him. And what in the world are you talking about with the Asian boy's bangs! The most apparent thing in either case is your need to believe there's something faked about this photo. I suppose the poster who knows the other boy, who told her that Barry was in his class at that time for a few months, must necessarily be lying or that the man who was the other boy was necessarily lying because you think you see something strange about the bangs.

Anyone skilled enough to make a composite that looks that good would also be skilled enough not to leave such minor things to wonder about. The more likely explanation is that in anything that is visually complex there are enough things that a mind, bent on seeing something else, will usually see enough to convince himself or to convince himself that what he would have seen would have been seen and that what he perceives of as anomalies are, therefore, proof of its existence.