Look at this picture of the Edge from the New Orleans Jazzfest. It looks like the picture of him was cut and pasted on the background. But the background is so plain it just seems wierd. Look at the white line around his right arm. And he looks flat.
If it was, CNN bought it that way: Getty Images
The white line around his arm and head could be from “angel lighting,” where there’s a light directly behind him shining toward the camera.
I’m obviously not the best at these kind of things… but the lighting and ambience is right, and the white line could easily be from being backlit. I don’t think it’s a fake.
I am sorry. I don’t see the picture. Is it on the first page? I don’t any pictures of the Edge there. I saw some on the second page, but nothing with the gold background.
It looks like they took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame picture of the Edge (with Springsteen) and added the gold background from the New Orleans Jazzfest.
If you looke at [this one](javascript:OpenChildWindow(‘Editorial & News Stock Images - News Sports, Celebrity Photos - Getty Images’, ‘’, ‘width=640,height=500,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no’) you can clearly see the bulb from a bright light just behind him. This light would cause the glow.
Nother photoshopper here; also photographer. Definitely standard backlight halo, definitely the kind of outline a halfway decent photoshopper would work to avoid.
Was this supposed to be a pic of Edge during a performance? Seems too clean if it was a live shot to trust. A studio shot, on the other hand, I can buy.
Is this supposed to carry any weight whatsoever? It just looks like some PR pics distributed to the press.
Nah, it’s not a studio shot. It’s definitely live. Not clean enough or controlled enough to be a studio shot. That was taken during his performance with the Dave Matthews Band. Pretty standard concert shot, except the lighting is really funky making it look a bit two dimensional.