[Plutarch]

I could never find any evidence to back up the claim that the version with Obama was Photoshopped.

You must not have been looking very hard, as there are numerous indications of Photoshop.

Just for starters, that streak on the wall to the left of Dunham, that is not actually on the wall, is obviously a photograph artifact, and probably Photoshop artifact.

...so much so that the Chicago Tribune version Photoshopped it out.

So, at least one of these pics have been Photoshopped, if only to clean up the artifact.

That artifact, and many other manipulations show up brightly on the Error Level Analysis of the photo, the numerous bright highlights suggesting the areas of the photo have been worked on.

[GGMac]

I’ve always found the most interesting aspect of this photo to be that Barry’s wearing a wedding ring...in [purportedly] 1981.

It’s also visible in some of the Occidental time-frame “Look at me, I’m a pothead” photos.

And in the large group family photo during his first trip to Kenya.

In all of those photos, it really looks just like the wedding ring he wears now - or does from a distance. Too bad there has not turned up a closeup of the pre-Michelle ring; closeups of the one he wears now show it to be an intricately carved semi-wide band. IIRC it has Indonesian figures carved into it.

I don’t have a link - sorry - but within the past few months I saw this same photo somewhere on the web, with the wedding band photoshopped out, leaving his hand rather gnarled-looking. Perhaps too many people had been noticing the ring? Another “oopsie”?

[GGMac]

I’ve always found the most interesting aspect of this photo to be that Barry’s wearing a wedding ring...in [purportedly] 1981.

It’s also visible in some of the Occidental time-frame “Look at me, I’m a pothead” photos.

And in the large group family photo during his first trip to Kenya.

In all of those photos, it really looks just like the wedding ring he wears now - or does from a distance. Too bad there has not turned up a closeup of the pre-Michelle ring; closeups of the one he wears now show it to be an intricately carved semi-wide band. IIRC it has Indonesian figures carved into it.

I don’t have a link - sorry - but within the past few months I saw this same photo somewhere on the web, with the wedding band photoshopped out, leaving his hand rather gnarled-looking. Perhaps too many people had been noticing the ring? Another “oopsie”?