Why the fascination with Kimmer? #9 - Page 19

JeriRat · 11-08-2007, 01:28 PM

I have Paint Shop Pro (a much less expensive photo program) and it has a tool to make someone look thin.

susique333 · 11-08-2007, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Nady

OMG~ I remember years and years ago (before photoshop) there was a picture in the Sears catalog~ A real hunk of a guy who should have been wearing longer boxer shorts

We passed the page number around for months!

~~~N

I remember that photo, it was in the late 70s wasnt it? LOL My mother in law was the one who showed me and she was always such a prude!

ixtapacheryl · 11-08-2007, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

I don't mess with photoshop really, so I thought the pose looked to similar but can you get those results with photoshop? I mean Heidi photoshop...

I attributed the paler chest to just the way a person would naturally have a paler area directly under their chin if their sun exposure was just when the person was outside or in and out of the car. In other words not a sun worshiper.
Then the shadow looked correct on the after picture, to the right behind his head.
Hey, don't get me wrong I think the story is a fake but I couldn't photoshop that but I am sure others could. Can someone do my picture for me so I can use it for inspiration?

Seriously!

Here is the reply I got from my husband's cousin. I am also going to send it to my brother in England to get his opinion - (computer savy and a photographer)

"No, best I can tell they are 2 different photos, probably taken several months or even years apart. Notice the hair differences, especially at the edges. The door in the background could have been edited out, of course. Also notice the shirt, the style of which is different from the other. Yes, the color could have been changed by the program, but the wrinkles and shapes probably could not be edited. I really am not an expert on such things. Computers can do so much today, it could be an altered photo, but…."

Nady · 11-08-2007, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ixtapacheryl

Here is the reply I got from my husband's cousin. I am also going to send it to my brother in England to get his opinion - (computer savy and a photographer)

"No, best I can tell they are 2 different photos, probably taken several months or even years apart. Notice the hair differences, especially at the edges. The door in the background could have been edited out, of course. Also notice the shirt, the style of which is different from the other. Yes, the color could have been changed by the program, but the wrinkles and shapes probably could not be edited. I really am not an expert on such things. Computers can do so much today, it could be an altered photo, but…."

Behold~~ the power of photoshop~

ETA~ my favorite (for laughs) is Tomkat~

~~~N

Nady · 11-08-2007, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by susique333

I remember that photo, it was in the late 70s wasnt it? LOL My mother in law was the one who showed me and she was always such a prude!

wish I'd saved it~
~~N

susique333 · 11-08-2007, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ixtapacheryl

Here is the reply I got from my husband's cousin. I am also going to send it to my brother in England to get his opinion - (computer savy and a photographer)

"No, best I can tell they are 2 different photos, probably taken several months or even years apart. Notice the hair differences, especially at the edges. The door in the background could have been edited out, of course. Also notice the shirt, the style of which is different from the other. Yes, the color could have been changed by the program, but the wrinkles and shapes probably could not be edited. I really am not an expert on such things. Computers can do so much today, it could be an altered photo, but…."

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The sideburn is exactly the same too....as are the position of the eyes, pupils, identical raising of the left eyebrow, shape of the lips, tilt of the head, slope of the right shoulder, same where the earlobe meets the neck. Although the shirt was tinkered with, where the "V" ends its the same. The same amount of collar peeking up over the side of his neck. I vote for photo-shopped.

Diana · 11-08-2007, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Magicsmom

Well, I just saw a promo about the "weight loss scams" segment, and a mention by Juliet at the very end of the show. Hmmmmmmm.............

ETA, Juliet put a lot of emphasis on the word "scams". If that tells you anything, it tells you that things are not looking good for the KK spokesholes.

That's what I was saying, what is TypoTippy going to say? Look at these FAKE pictures, they lost their weight.

Juliet- But they do not look like the person in the before, please explain

Typotippy- I swear it's them, they are thinner see?

JoSkids · 11-08-2007, 01:45 PM

I am not convinced that it was photoshopped. I have been to several photoshop seminars by a renowned photoshop expert and there is a lot you can do to a photo, but I don't think they can do as much as it shows in these photos.

That being said, how do we know these are actually pictures of the person who posted?

The first picture doesn't look like a guy over 300 lbs either, but then I have seen many face shots on this bulletin board where I didn't think the person looked anywhere near the weight they claimed (they looked thinner) So it's hard to tell by one's face.

susique333 · 11-08-2007, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Nady

wish I'd saved it~
~~N

I found it! Dottie, the photo is dark so I dont think its going to be xrated. LEft leg, guy standing on the right.

Lilgrnize · 11-08-2007, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Nady

wish I'd saved it~
~~N

Nady, you can find it in Snopes under "A Model Exposed" they have links to the ad there.

Queeny · 11-08-2007, 01:51 PM

Yes you can take out wrinkles with photoshop, there isn't much you can't do. I have helped edit a calendar we put out for charity each year. We had to take out wrinkles in one persons outfit.

Nady · 11-08-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lilgrnize

Nady, you can find it in Snopes under "A Model Exposed" they have links to the ad there.

Nothing is ever quite 'forgotten' is it~

~~~N

Lilgrnize · 11-08-2007, 01:55 PM

Nady, I remember when that came out, and my mother and her friends whispering about it but hiding it from us...being the resourceful little brats we were, we found it. Oh, well...she sure wasn't worried enough about it to toss the darn thing out!

HoneyBee2 · 11-08-2007, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Melle's_Sweetheart

The beauty of photoshop is that there are features that will take off pounds, change the hair, whatever...it's a very powerful program! I can barely use it, but from what I've seen my Husband do, I'm completely amazed.

Most of those "wow" photos you get in your email are photoshopped.....y'know like the ones with the soccer players BITS hanging out of their shorts and etc....

Ummm.......can you add me to your email list?

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Originally Posted by Nady

OMG~ I remember years and years ago (before photoshop) there was a picture in the Sears catalog~ A real hunk of a guy who should have been wearing longer boxer shorts

We passed the page number around for months!

~~~N

OH, you were bad!

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Originally Posted by Magicsmom

ITA!!! I have seen that exact same before and after. Gonna drive me crazy now until I figure it out!

Was it on all grooms. com?

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Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

I think I am having Deja Vu.....Anyone remember Ray?

OhYeahBabe · 11-08-2007, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbara B

Wow! His pupils are in the exact same position in his eyes and his head pointed in the exact same direction. Do you think he sat there the whole time he was losing weight, sitting in the same pose?

You don't suppose he has some kind of special disability? Maybe Kimmer can give him a job. Should we start a fundrazor?

ixtapacheryl · 11-08-2007, 02:02 PM

Here is another idea: Maybe the After picture is really the Before pic.

"I see, you were trying to figure out if this guy really lost enough weight to look like the photo on the right. Now, of course, anyone can put the words Before and After on a photo. It would have been easy to switch them. Photos are easily manipulated in that way. In other words, it’s entirely possible the photo on the left is how the guy looks now. It may be several years since the photo on right was taken.

Dated photos can’t even be completely trusted because digital cameras can print the wrong date. The camera owner can set it at any date. Photos just don’t work for diets, do they? "

ixtapacheryl · 11-08-2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Queeny

Yes you can take out wrinkles with photoshop, there isn't much you can't do. I have helped edit a calendar we put out for charity each year. We had to take out wrinkles in one persons outfit.

Wow that's good to know! I'll let Mike know. I don't think he's that knowledgeable in Photoshop..... I really think the "Before" pic is the "After" pic .... if it is not photoshopped.

TerryC · 11-08-2007, 02:06 PM

Heres what I am wondering...If we saw this picture and as soon as it was posted over here we saw it for the fake that it obviously is, how come no one over there is questioning it?

How come TT doesn't immediately realize it and question it? And I don't for one second think its because she knows its heidi. I think there are many secrets that are kept over there from her. She probably doesn't even know that Gary the admin is a sockpuppet. Is he still there?

gibster · 11-08-2007, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ixtapacheryl

Wow that's good to know! I'll let Mike know. I don't think he's that knowledgeable in Photoshop..... I really think the "Before" pic is the "After" pic .... if it is not photoshopped.

Oh, I'd bet $59.95 that it's photoshopped! It's almost impossible to take pics months apart and have the exact same pose.

Magicsmom · 11-08-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Diana

That's what I was saying, what is TypoTippy going to say? Look at these FAKE pictures, they lost their weight.

Juliet- But they do not look like the person in the before, please explain

Typotippy- I swear it's them, they are thinner see?

Oh, I know exactly what Typotippy is going to say. Any idiot and their brother can lose weight when they barely eat, so there's no trick there. I was trying to communicate that I think the "spin" the producers will put on this program is to emphasize the "scam" part of the plans they are going to discuss.

Magicsmom · 11-08-2007, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

Was it on all grooms. com?

It might have been, hard to say. I wish I could remember.

OhYeahBabe · 11-08-2007, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TerryC

Heres what I am wondering...If we saw this picture and as soon as it was posted over here we saw it for the fake that it obviously is, how come no one over there is questioning it?

How come TT doesn't immediately realize it and question it? And I don't for one second think its because she knows its heidi. I think there are many secrets that are kept over there from her. She probably doesn't even know that Gary the admin is a sockpuppet. Is he still there?

People see what they want to see, I guess.

I can just hear Kimmer now... 'First they moaned and groaned because all my fake before and after photos didn't look enough alike, and now they look too much alike!? What will it take so shut these ducks up????"

Nady · 11-08-2007, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by gibster

It's almost impossible to take pics months apart and have the exact same pose.

It's almost impossible to take pics minutes apart and have the exact same pose.

~~~N

Magicsmom · 11-08-2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by susique333

I found it! Dottie, the photo is dark so I dont think its going to be xrated. LEft leg, guy standing on the right.

Yeah, unfortunately, it's not x-rated anymore!

11-08-2007, 01:45 PM	#548
JoSkids Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Nor Cal Posts: 3,820 Gallery: JoSkids	I am not convinced that it was photoshopped. I have been to several photoshop seminars by a renowned photoshop expert and there is a lot you can do to a photo, but I don't think they can do as much as it shows in these photos. That being said, how do we know these are actually pictures of the person who posted? The first picture doesn't look like a guy over 300 lbs either, but then I have seen many face shots on this bulletin board where I didn't think the person looked anywhere near the weight they claimed (they looked thinner) So it's hard to tell by one's face. __________________ Jo Start date: 8/27/07 Weekly loss: 2, Total Loss: 18, To Go: 6 If hunger is not the problem, food is not the answer! Be Prepared - It's not just a Boy Scout motto anymore! If anyone doesn't think their plan is the best; they should probably be looking for a new plan. - Jezzie

11-08-2007, 01:28 PM	#541
JeriRat Senior LCF Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Nose in book Posts: 256 Gallery: JeriRat Stats: 275.5/255/170 6'0" WOE: Atkins Start Date: 10/08/07 restart 05/27/08	I have Paint Shop Pro (a much less expensive photo program) and it has a tool to make someone look thin.

11-08-2007, 01:51 PM	#551
Queeny Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: in my garden Posts: 5,160 Gallery: Queeny	Yes you can take out wrinkles with photoshop, there isn't much you can't do. I have helped edit a calendar we put out for charity each year. We had to take out wrinkles in one persons outfit.

11-08-2007, 01:55 PM	#553
Lilgrnize Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Antonio Posts: 5,996 Gallery: Lilgrnize Start Date: 02/04	Nady, I remember when that came out, and my mother and her friends whispering about it but hiding it from us...being the resourceful little brats we were, we found it. Oh, well...she sure wasn't worried enough about it to toss the darn thing out!

11-08-2007, 02:02 PM	#556
ixtapacheryl Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 5,899 Gallery: ixtapacheryl Stats: 183/147/130-135 - 5'7.5" WOE: '72 Atkins	Here is another idea: Maybe the After picture is really the Before pic. "I see, you were trying to figure out if this guy really lost enough weight to look like the photo on the right. Now, of course, anyone can put the words Before and After on a photo. It would have been easy to switch them. Photos are easily manipulated in that way. In other words, it’s entirely possible the photo on the left is how the guy looks now. It may be several years since the photo on right was taken. Dated photos can’t even be completely trusted because digital cameras can print the wrong date. The camera owner can set it at any date. Photos just don’t work for diets, do they? "

11-08-2007, 02:06 PM	#558
TerryC Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 387 Gallery: TerryC WOE: I love Low Carb - You all are doing it so well! Start Date: June 2007	Heres what I am wondering...If we saw this picture and as soon as it was posted over here we saw it for the fake that it obviously is, how come no one over there is questioning it? How come TT doesn't immediately realize it and question it? And I don't for one second think its because she knows its heidi. I think there are many secrets that are kept over there from her. She probably doesn't even know that Gary the admin is a sockpuppet. Is he still there?

11-08-2007, 02:20 PM	#565
Nady Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona Posts: 11,741 Gallery: Nady WOE: LC/No Grains Start Date: On & Off Since 1972