LTTE upto old forgeries AGAIN!

Looks like that opening for a good Photoshop retoucher job in LTTE land hasn't yet been filled. While we are not surprised by the lack of any interested candidates for the job, we are a bit worried that with Prabhakaran's demise, the quality of their fake propaganda has also slipped to rather embarrassing depths. Below is a picture of the LTTE leader, allegedly sitting with a Tamil newspaper in hand and watching his own funeral on television. Wow, what an amazing feat! After all he is the "Sun God" and rising from the dead is nothing new. So, they'd have you believe. Well, not really as we found out when we examined the image. -Sinhaya

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No Perspective: The perspective lines on the Cabinet doesn't seem to match the perspective lines of the very floor it's kept on (see the yellow lines extending behind Prabhakaran. Next the perspective lines of the Television (HiDEF one too!) are totally crooked to the cabinet or the floor lines. Their vanishing point (where the lines meet) occurs somewhere closer to Prabhakran. This is not only against all creative rules, but against the laws of physics too. This can only happens in a surrealistic Salvador Dali painting.

Shadowy work: This is obviously taken with a camera mounted flash, evidenced by the dark area behind Prabhakaran and the sheen on his cheek from the light. Yet the shadows behind the TV and the one on what looks like a book rack, falls to the opposite side of the other shadows. Again cannot happen. The fingers holding the paper seems to be floating above the paper, with no grip. This is because the retoucher created a shadow where the finger tips touches the paper. There cannot be a floating shadow (a shadow sitting in a distance from it's original source) where surfaces meet.

Finally the Prabhakaran seems to be much slimmer than the ones taken closer to 2007-8. It is definitely an older photo of him, retouched with the Cabinet, TV, Newspaper and obviously a bad moustach job. Still don't believe us? Well then take a look at the photo below, taken somewhere around 2005 with Anton Balasingham, which is the original of this "badly" doctored version.

Updated: We just found the picture of the TV set with the Cabinet, book shelf that was used in this forgery. It is obviously scanned in from a furniture catalogue, and inserting the TV image is basic 101 for even for an bad retoucher.

If this is what the LTTE are up to, how can anyone in the international media, politicians and aid agencies believe their claims of Genocide and war crimes? How can a reputed News media carrie this as a news item, without authenticate them (I just watched it on night news on CityTV-same family as CP24)

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Note to the forgerer: Next time, destroy the evidence! If you watched enough movies, you know never to keep a smoking gun. Then get an education on how to use photoshop, and may be an Art class!