Please tell me this picture is Photoshopped.

[Larry_Mudd]

@scr4

Snopes still lists it as undetermined.

That’s funny – it’s not like it’s difficult to spot the cloned areas.

This little animation illustrates where groups of pixels are repeated in different areas.

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

@Sutremaine

I cannot for the life of me see what you’re talking about. The first thing I noticed was the left eye (his right) had its tear duct on the outside.
Actually… squints Is it that shallow near-horizontal line just above the shiny bit of his forehead?

Yep, that’s the one I’m referring to.

[Euthanasiast]

I promise you it’s been altered heavily in photoshop, specifically because of the misuse of the Healing Brush. I could have done a far better job. It looks as though they started with the Clone tool, taking samples from the forehead, then went back over it with the Healing Brush in an attempt to blend it a little better and take the shine off. They could have done a much better job taking a little time and a smaller brush size.

Look for the repeating pore pattern of the skin over the eye.

[OtakuLoki]

@hillbilly queen

Yeah, something didn’t look quite right, but I didn’t study it long enough to figure it out. He still shouldn’t be scrunching his face up like that though, it looks painful.

Ding! This is the right answer! It’s too fubar for me to look at it closely enough to find the photoshop errors.

It is, by definition, a photoshop job, because I refuse to consider the possibility that it might be real. (Yes, that is a tautology. If that bothers you - go look at the picture some more. )

[miamouse]

Aside from noticing where it has been cloned, take the image into photoshop yourself, and open up the channels palette. Click on one of the channels (either in RGB or CMYK)so you only see that color, you’ll notice much more easily where things have been tampered with. Look at the right socket, it’s lumpy where it shouldn’t be, also the way the skin folds around that eye don’t make sense. Otherwise, it’s a pretty cool idea, though.

[thirdwarning]

@DMark

Ages ago I went to a state fair and they still had a side show with “freaks”…I am not being politcally uncorrect, that was the billing then.

At any rate, one of the guys could let his eyeballs hang out of his sockets and rest on his cheeks. I was a little kid at the time and about had a heart attack! However, I also thought it was kind of cool. It was not a “trick”, he could do it for real. Saw some articles on him years later, and I think he was even in a horror film? Not sure, but think I saw him again on screen.

So, my vote? Real - no photo shop.

How long ago was this? Because this is, according to my father, my oldest brother’s only real memory of the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. “I saw a man who could bug his eyes out on his cheeks.” Surely there can’t be too many people who can do that, can there?

[astro]

@thirdwarning

How long ago was this? Because this is, according to my father, my oldest brother’s only real memory of the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. “I saw a man who could bug his eyes out on his cheeks.” Surely there can’t be too many people who can do that, can there?

More than you might think. It relates to a (mumble) condition that some people are born with.

[Lady_Eboshi]

I think you might be referring to Kleebattschadel’s syndrome . (WARNING! Pictures of extreme disfigurement. Will make you very sad).