# Are those Episode II pics legit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060 "2002-03-31T13:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Dragon\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Mom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/1 "2002-03-31T13:41:55Z")
Haven´t found´em elsewhere but here. Cannot understand the language of the site. Are they legit, or the work of some Photoshop wiz?😕 [CLICK HERE](http://martorelli.blig.ig.com.br/) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/2 "2002-03-31T17:05:59Z")
I don’t know - some of them look kind of photshopped. Either that, or the camera quality was _really_ bad. See on the top one how the boy at the back right has a really fuzzy face, but not the girl on the left? And how come Yoda is under such totally different lighting than the rest? Looking at the second picture, there is some DEFINITE fuzziness surrounding Yoda and the Whateveritis at the back - sure sign of a cut-and-paste job, IHMO. The lighting is also kind of funny - or does Yoda glow naturally? I’ve seen the original 3 movies many times, and that’s a detail I never noticed 🙂 The third and fourth pictures look a little better - there’s nothing that stands out as being really fake-looking, but then, I don’t really know much about photography and photoshop. I get the impression overall that these are fake, though. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/3 "2002-03-31T17:08:14Z")
And now my SO tells me that the fuzziness is likely just an “artifact of jpeg compression”, and so isn’t as diagnostic as I thought it would be 🙂 See, I told you I didn’t know anything! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/4 "2002-03-31T17:49:57Z")
I agree that fuzziness around Yoda looks like jpeg compression, I’ve seen that kind of thing before when I was compressing BMPs to JPGs. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/5 "2002-03-31T20:26:40Z")
I think this is more appropriate to Cafe Society than GQ, so I’ll move it over there. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/6 "2002-04-01T01:27:38Z")
. . . but can anybody tell me where I can get one of those Baby Sized Lightsabres ™ for my daughter? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cheepdogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@cheepdogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheepdogg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-episode-ii-pics-legit/101060/7 "2002-04-01T14:05:06Z")
Those pics are legit…Trust me. 😃