iPod Video Photo - a Fake

[dario27]

I think the original image and the video are made by the same person but the video is a reenactment of how he did it.

When he cut out the screen for the right of the image he didn’t delete a little piece of the background just above the edge, when it is cloned to the middle you can see the what looks like a piece of dust moving along with the screen.

This mark is on the original image.

 

[rockblade]

Interesting analysis. Just when we think there nothing NEW to analyze about the Chinese characters (What do they mean, I wonder?)

They mean "this side up", as we all know already. Although I never went into such a chinese factory, but it make sense to me to put a tag on the cable to make the work more efficient. Those chinese workers are usually not very literate.

 

[tonybeak]

Okay so I've been playing and replaying this damn video.

I put together a bunch of screenshots of peculiar (and insignificant) things in the video:

In the video, he searches "lcd color test" on the google.nl site, but in this picture, it shows that the picture is located on the google.com site.

First of all, why did he magically change sites from .nl to .com? Second of all, when you click a picture to view it on Google, the URL is infact the url of the site. Basically, the address box in that screenshot should be showing something like "http://www.samsung.com/eng/1912937/lcdcolortest1.png", but instead it shows "http://www.google.com".

Another thing about the "lcd color" search. Don't people in the Netherlands spell color "colour"? This leads me to assume that the hoaxer is not from there.

Not that interesting, but what's that reflection on the screen? Just something I thought I'd point out.

Earlier I posted something about Google and how the guy made the video yesterday. The comment in this screenshot was posted today. So when was the video ACTUALLY made??



Someone help me make sense of all this?

 

[thegreatunknown]

wow a lot of craziness going on.

I'm not going to talk about the picture and/or video but I will say this...

I went to the Apple store yesterday to get something and for fun I bugged the salesman a little bit. I didn't expect him to say anything worthwhile as normal BUT this guy slipped and said whatever it is they already have it in stock... and to quote he said "I'm very glad I'm not working on Tuesday." I have no freakin clue what that means but whatever. I know they usually don't have a lot of hardware in stock the day its announced but I've never been there on ipod announcement days.

 

[rosalindavenue]

OK I just read all nine pages of this thread and I dont think anyone has addressed the fact that the original photo showed the light of the test pattern glowing through the label. This seemed to be the killer fact in a lot of threads I read on Thursday-- that would be pretty tough to photoshop-- I bet the Knoll brothers themselves (inventors of photoshop) could not pull that off. I vote that the original photo is real and the video is a well-done piece of speculation.

 

[illw!l]

Someone help me make sense of all this?

Bits and pieces taken from here and there. The google part could have come last night and the soon-to-be-possibly-infamous "motulist" post could have been a last minute addition, some pepper and salt, if you will.

Good job hunting down that stuff.

Has anyone been able to find, google or elsewhere, the screen test photo that was used?

 

[rockblade]

OK I just read all nine pages of this thread and I dont think anyone has addressed the fact that the original photo showed the light of the test pattern glowing through the label. This seemed to be the killer fact in a lot of threads I read on Thursday-- that would be pretty tough to photoshop-- I bet the Knoll brothers themselves (inventors of photoshop) could not pull that off. I vote that the original photo is real and the video is a well-done piece of speculation.

It's shown in the video how it could be done. I am no photoshop wizard to know how good the effect can be though.
I also vote that the original photo is real and the video is a good fake.

 

[illw!l]

It's shown in the video how it could be done. I am no photoshop wizard to know how good the effect can be though.
I also vote that the original photo is real and the video is a good fake.

It seemed to be just the eraser tool set at a low percentage.

 

[itsa]

Neat. Great Photoshop work.

The Photoshop work is not all that great.. but that video is cool.

 

[grubesteak]

Impressive. Obviously he has way too much time on his hands, though.

I hate stupid statements like this. If you're going to be good at your trade, you've got to practice. And what better way to see if your work is any good by trying it out on a bunch of hungry Apple fans?

 

[tonybeak]

Look what i found.. hm..

is that the sopranos??!?!! Im waiting for March 12th for the new season.. Sopranos on iTunes would be so much sweeter.

Where did you find that? It looks great, but I've decided to disregard any more photos as being real.

 

[JBytes]

Um, maybe this video is a fake?


--JBytes

 

[kugino]

yes, the photo of that video ipod is a fake...but there's a part of me that wishes it were real and the video was a fake, because it be the first time that someone has gone to such great lengths to "fakerize" a real product...there's something very funny about that.

 

[yac_moda]

Many of the anomaly's you guys are picking up are caused by the compression or just resampling of the video.

 

[bloogersnigen]

Those are awesome PS skills, it was fun while it lasted.

its acutually very easy to do that with photoshop. Anyone that uses ps regularly could do it in 10-15 min.

Great idea though

 

[dernhelm]

OK, it's definitely NOT showing the creation of the original image--although it could be the same guy "doing it over" because he didn't document the first time.

Fun with Fishiness:

* The hand-drawn parts (tape markings AND the foreground scribbling at the end) don't match: he draws one thing that doesn't match the original image, then cuts to a version that does match.

* He places a pure, solid, untextured EPS of the testbars... but never shows how the realistic LCD moire was introduced. What better way to do that than to take a picture of your Mac screen with the testbars displayed? And place THAT instead? I can't think how placing an EPS makes sense.

So this is a reconstruction--which doesn't mean the original is real, of course.

Funny with the music though

Agreed. My guess is the same as yours - it was a re-enactment of the fake video by the guy who did the original. He probably did the fake, and then went 'doh' - should've documented it! And went back and did another video to show off his skillz (or whatever).

The music absolutely made that video, though - which was pretty funny.

 

[sam10685]

Look what i found.. hm..

is that the sopranos??!?!! Im waiting for March 12th for the new season.. Sopranos on iTunes would be so much sweeter.

that is the ugliest mock-up i have ever seen. look how the edge of the image is closer to the edge of the ipod on the left side and on the right side, it's further from the edge.

 

[flowerbook]

next tuesday

next tuesday steve j. is presenting the fake:
"the photo was fake.
the video was fake.
both done by apple to fool the fans.
to remember this we preload this hoax into our newest device:
the new wide-screen video ipod!"

 

[p0intblank]

I have to admit... this is pretty awesome. It's kind of disappointing to see it was a fake, but still very amusing. It's amazing how much one image can spread across the 'net. Kudos to the original Photoshop artist!

Now where's my Intel Mac mini?

 

[yac_moda]

its acutually very easy to do that with photoshop. Anyone that uses ps regularly could do it in 10-15 min.

Great idea though

Try Photoshopping with GraphicConverter, its a little harder.

The best way to photoshop STUFF is to make it from things that you actually have in front of you rather then from other picts, then you can use your digital camera to take pictures and tilt, size, and light the object until you get picture pieces that you can paste together to look exactly right.

And doing it that way there does not have to be created any kind of distortions in the seems of the pieces as they go together, although blurring the outer edges of objects going into a background can be very difficult to get correct especially if it is a closeup.

Years ago when I was working at Silicon Beach we were testing DigitalDarkroom 2.0 and me and another guy put one of the girl tester's face on picture of an Indian lady in a smock.

She had a turban hat, we put a dot on her forehead IT WAS AWESOME.

We got in trouble for that !!!

 

[InTheBand]

With everyone investigating the picture, the video, trying to find the individual elements, and tryng to re-create the fakes, all of this can only lead to one thing...

a whole lot more "fake mock-up" experts and of course, MORE RUMORS!

 

[mackeeper]

this coming from the guy who still thinks apple's going to introduce a product just like this (post #14, 35)

What does the fact that I think it is easy to forge these photos on photoshop have to do with the fact that I think the video ipod may very well be similar to the picture....??? And checking up on my posts? A bit creepy I'd say...Go outside and play.

 

[Boardslippy]

got some pics off the net had a quick mess around, for the screen hes either actually taken a photo of the screen test on an LCD once hes made it in illustrator then put it in or used a alienskin TV effect on it otherwise it just looks too clear as in mine, anyway heres my quick job just seing what i could do with low res images, not great but shows how easy it is shame it is oh well. come on apple we need some surprises!, original was just of an ipod of google

 

[davido242]

Proof of something

notice the way in which the blackout is created, as well as the lack of 7. Either this means that the documentation of the creation of the fake iPod video photo was done after its original creation, or that the video of the iPod video photo creation is different than that depicted in the video. Does that make sense? Look at the evidence.

 

[ariel]

video is fake in my opinion

The video is a total fake if you ask me - in the section where the person is putting the taped connector in the slot, the top part of the chinese characters doesn't match the still image... and in the section where they are photographing the ipod, the white material the ipod is on is not wrinkled in the right places and in fact the cable in the lower right isn't the same shape and there is some cable lying underneath the whole thing in the upper left corner of the video that isn't in the still image. And heck, when they are photographing the ipod on the white background the taped plug isn't even in place at any time... video is fake. And the original still is probably fake too but that's a whole other story