Blurry hair, meandering zippers—we asked WIRED’s design department to explain the editing errors in Kate Middleton’s controversial Mother’s Day photo.
Kate Middleton , the Princess of Wales, needs to brush up on her Photoshop skills, apparently. Over the weekend, the royal family released the first image of Middleton since her abdominal surgery in January. As the photo of her and her three smiling children started to circulate online, the Associated Press and other wire services issued an urgent notification to journalists not to use the image in editorial articles, suspecting the photo might be digitally altered.
design director Alyssa Walker. “It fuses the image together by pulling another part of the image.” When used haphazardly, this type of content stamp tool could easily introduce errors to an image, like the edges of clothing appearing to be cut off at random with poorly defined outlines. For Cameron Getty, an assistant photo editor at
, the peculiar zipper stood out as a major red flag. “I think this proves that it's been altered,” says Getty. “You just wouldn't get that any other way.” He pointed out an odd line across the image where Kate’s zipper disappears and suggested the image might be a composite of more than one photo.
was not able to contact the royal family via telephone before publication.
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