need help with an image (1 Viewer)

[inasero]

Does anybody (perhaps someone with experience in photoshop) think the following picture could have been digitally manipulated (e.g. based on content, colours, textures and shadows)? I'm especially interested in possible discrepancies between the top and bottom halves of the skeleton.

http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/images/skeleton.jpg

 

[AsyLum]

If there are touchups, it seems fairly minor, exposure/alpha levels etc.

 

[inasero]

Given the angle of the photo I'd say the discrepancy is down to lighting. The problem is that the image you've linked is a small, very lossy one, so it's hard to detect digital manipulation with such data. If you had access to an original or something larger, then a more thorough analysis could be performed.

At this level what you're looking for is exact replicas, similar noise or grain or incredibly similar elements of the image.

The image at the moment just looks like it's lit unevenly from the side. The shadowing doesn't strike me as obviously fraudulent, so there's really nothing much to be drawn from it.

You sound like a capital bloke, let's have a few quiet ones together some time. And you can bring along the box of ice creams you promised.