Hello and Welcome to another episode of Instagram vs reality.
If you're new here, this is the segment of the channel where we look at how your favourite
fakestagrammers edit their photos into making you believe they’re the real deal.I know
many of you have been asking for a full episode covering real time editing like with twitch
streamers and livestreams but thats in the works for the next episode.
This week all of the photos are from the ig reality subreddit so give them a visit for
some extra context.
I’ve upgraded my mic to a rode NT1-A after hearing your complaints, and I’ll speak
slower so that things are a bit clearer.
As always I’d like to put out the disclaimer that this video is simply meant to be informative
and is not target at harming or injuring anyone’s brand or their image.
Look man, if its up on insta its free game.
Alright let's start with an easy one.
This is such a cookie cutter example of your favourite influencer’s travel pics with
hashtags such as wanderlust and travel diary, when we both damn well know shes trying to
show us her life is better than ours.
If we take a quiet look at the waves, it's very odd that these runup waves curve to the
contour of her body but these cresting waves are parallel to the shore.
Unless there was some kind of hidden sand trap behind her out of view, there's no reason
for water to take the path of most resistance and curve like that.
I do work for Instagram influencers in my free time so this is a very common type of
liquify edit that’d I’d be asked to do, the majority of which are from big travel
influencers selling bikini pics to thirsty men.
It's true I'm selling both the poison and the cure, but hey that's capitalism folks.
A better way to do this would be to create a freeze mask that tells the computer to leave
the wave pixels alone and only focuses on her.
She must have done this with a very large brush because all of the ripples follow the
same direction, so my guess it was done with her thumbs on the facetune app and not on
photoshop.
See this next one, I wouldn’t have called it out if it weren’t for the extra cockiness.
Look if you're going to edit yourself that's fine, but for the love of all things holy
be subtle about it and definitely do not draw attention to it.
Even the best in the industry, and I mean working for the top modelling agencies admit
that they can never do a perfect job in their edits, because they’re limited by the pixels
of the computer and not their own eyes.
It's all about misdirection and praying they don’t notice.
So right at the back the bench is bending downwards, the walls are bulging outwards
and there's a huge amount of image artifacts, in this case blur zones in this region here.
Also this joinery seal on the floor is curving upwards, where as the bench is curving downwards
meaning they’re two different edits and that one was used to make her stomach flatter
and the other to make her breasts larger.
Moving on, we have another case of adobe gains.
This one is a bit harder to spot.
She's done a solid job with the liquify and has clearly used a freeze mask to make sure
that this frame doesn’t bend.
She's wearing what I’m guessing is a black satin dress so it should absorb most if not
all of the light hitting it.
This region here is unedited because the ripples of her dress cause light to reflect along
it obliquely.
This region here is edited because A) zooming In you can see a blur zone here of heavy pixelation
as all the pixels surrounding her butt get mashed together.
See how clear the reflection here is, you can see the creepy masked doll in the reflection,
what the hell does she have in her house.
There's also an aura which is another image artifact left behind after her editing, because
as I mentioned in a previous video, reflections are almost impossible to edit without leaving
behind some kind of tell tale sign, it's just too complex. B)
The light hitting her butt does downwards and not obliquely like the rest of her body,
and is for the most part dissipated because the pixels that were showing the light were
mashed together in the liquify tool soup.
If anything there should be more light on her butt because it's closer to the light
source.
I expected better of emrata.
I get comments on my previous videos like dude, you don’t need to focus on the technicalities
and these minute details, you can clearly tell its edited.
I’m sorry for the voice, I just naturally assumed they’re low iq.
The reason why I go into the finer details is to provide evidence of editing.
I can clearly see that it's edited, but If i said oh here you go it's edited, how?
I don’t know, I’d be no better than the thousands of other sensationalist drama channels.
If it's not an easy case of bending walls you might be able to tell me how it's edited
but you wouldn’t be able to tell me why it's edited without these finer details.
Sometimes people just post such blatantly bad edits I can’t help but think the jokes
on me.
I mean, the gap between the panels tells you exactly what she’d moved around in the liquify
tool.
A cinch at the waist here and a little adobe gains there and the photoshop fairy is all
done.
Oh this is a good one that I’ve been meaning to show you all for weeks.
In instagram reality ep.1 there were comments, not a lot but few that absolutely refused
to believe kylie edited her photos and it was all bad angles, a long day at work making
billions and bad lighting.
In this photo the door frame appears to be bending inwards, which is called me crazy,
is an indicator of liquify tool use.
It's also a good example of illustrating what I mean by image artifacts and blur zones,
because to me that's the best evidence of liquify edits there is and the majority of
instagram uses this type of edit more than any other.
Here's a not so quick recap, when you use the liquify photoshop, or whatever app you're
using, it converts all the pixels to a pixel distortion map of X,y coordinates, when you
move a pixel it remaps it to a new coordinate, but the existing pixel that was already there
doesn’t get deleted, it either gets blurred or the two pixels get combined resulting in
image artifacts.
If it got deleted you’d end up with black dots all over your image.
There's an in depth article on how the algorithm works in javascript in the description if
you’re really interested.
In kylies edit, there's an aura of overlapped pixels that forms around the doorframe because
modern cameras pick up all shades of a shadow, meaning when they overlap you get a distinct
glow around the edited parts as pixels are combined.
I don’t even know why she did it, it was such high risk for such little reward.
Strange how there's always distorted lines around their hips.
Maybe it's an artistic effect because these lines are as straight as James Charles.
I can't see a reason for editing the tiles here because it wouldn’t affect her body
shape but this line here definitely indicates that her hips were widened.
She has red pupils, at this point I think she knew she messed up and called it art.
You know what annoys me.
When people edit their photos and then put a motivational quote acting like its au naturale.
Her left elbow is 2 times as thick as her right.
She’s pulled her waist in from both sides, the problem is her arm got in the way so the
liquify tool dragged those pixels with it.
Does this shape look natural to you?
Straight, sin wave, and they say maths isn’t useful.
Here's one for the boys, where he’s pulled his jaw outwards causing the pole on the fence
to bend.
Now this one throws in a bit of doubt, like 12 angry men.
The singular pole is bent’ but the others are straight meaning it was done with quite
a fine brush to not disrupt anything else.
There are two different types of inflections on the pole, one one and one here, indicating
two separate edits.
This inflection here suggests that he raised the skin underneath his jaw, there's also
a bit of a pixel spill over creating an blend in pixels from where his jaw ends and the
background begins.
His hyoid bone has been raised because this shrub in the background curves in the same
direction as his lower hyoid bone.
Last bit of evidence to present to the jury is the blurring of light here.
If you notice very carefully, as soon as I touch the pole with the liquify tool it instantly
starts to blur and its most noticeable on the bright white reflection which turns into
an offwhite colour.
These poles are straight and unedited but the wavy pole has this offwhite, blurred effect
in the original image, meaning it was tampered with.
Impossibly perfect jawlines are a lot rarer than you think.
Alright, that brings another episode to a close.
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I’ll be putting out defining beauty ep.3 soon where I cover the how the nose influences
your face shape and week after it should be the jaw.
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