[Fresh Wind]

Hat Tip to freeper PA Engineer’s daughter for showing that this Australian birth certificate is itself a likely forgery!

That's just ridiculous.

Read the Photoshop Elements description of the Divide Scanned Photos command. It says:

"If you scanned several pictures at once on a flatbed scanner, you can automatically divide the scanned image into its component photos. The photos must have a clear separation between them.

In the Editor, choose Image > Divide Scanned Photos.

Photoshop Elements automatically divides the image and places each photo in a separate file."

If you have ever actually learned to use Photoshop or the cheaper version Photoshop Elements, you would know that when you save a file as a jpeg, ALL OF THE LAYER INFORMATION IS LOST. It's called "flattening the image".

Once you do that, it is no longer possible to separate the layers.

What happened when you ran this command on the file was that the software tried to divide it up based on the dividing lines that separate the area of the document.

Furthermore, if you view the original Australian file using a hexadecimal viewer, you will find that the word "Adobe" has not been inserted into the file, something that Photoshop always does. If you open the Kenyan forgery that way, the "Adobe" word is there in the first few bytes of the file, meaning that file has been edited using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

The name Photoshop Elements means only that it contains elements of the full (and much more expensive) version of Photoshop. It doesn't imply anything about being able to separate an image into "elements".

[spacejunkie01]

Freshwind...what do you make of post #4 in this link?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307802/posts?page=4

Also, just to be clear, the “original” BC that was posted very early Sunday was hacked almost immediately and changed. Could that be what’s showing the word ‘adobe’?

[Islander7]

“....ALL OF THE LAYER INFORMATION IS LOST....”

Thanks! You saved me the trouble of explaining this. Geez!!

[Electric Graffiti]

The metadata can be removed. It was the layering info that got the ball rolling to find many anomalies in the Australian B.C. Start here and read on

[Bigh4u2]

Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.

[PA Engineer]

Have to run. Leaving your "commercial" criticism aside, you are saying then in your "professional" opinion that the Australian photo is untouched and legitimate? Is that what should be gleaned from your very long post? You did not see photoshop tags (editable by the way) so this was real and not manipulated? From you post it sounds like you are calling the Kenyan document a fraud, but the Australian is real. Was that the conclusion you reached in your very "long" post? Is this what you are telling me and the Freepers on this thread?

Your conclusion is that this is the fraud:

Your saying this is the fraud (Kenyan)?



Your saying this is the truth (Australian)?



Anticipating your expert and reasoned reply!

[woofie]

from another thread:

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To: Fresh Wind
Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.

30 posted on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:05:35 AM by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.

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This is from last night

So why would you say what you said about adobe?