Something feels manipulated about this, but it also feels like the author/photographer went out of their way to make sure you couldn’t prove it was manipulated
What you’re likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it’s essentially an optical illusion. This isn’t 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn’t say manipulated per se, just that they’re 3 different images so they’ll have some differences.
So let’s take the body/pose on the right, copy it to all three positions mask the dress only, and overlay only the dress pattern in the same mask to actually show the differences between the patterns only.
I agree with you, but if you measure the width of the dress at the tip of her fingers, the left and right are about 99-100 pixels, while the middle one is 105 pixels wide. Her face in all three images is about 38-39 pixels wide (measured at the earlobe), so that rules out they stretched the entire image slightly. But 5 pixels is significant enough to kind of muddy the validity of the OP’s message since it no longer rules out all but the appearance of the dress. It sadly happens that sometimes effects are exaggerated, even when there is a real effect at play.
Something feels manipulated about this, but it also feels like the author/photographer went out of their way to make sure you couldn’t prove it was manipulated
If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you’ll see it’s manipulated.
What you’re likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it’s essentially an optical illusion. This isn’t 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn’t say manipulated per se, just that they’re 3 different images so they’ll have some differences.
Yup.
So let’s take the body/pose on the right, copy it to all three positions mask the dress only, and overlay only the dress pattern in the same mask to actually show the differences between the patterns only.
I agree with you, but if you measure the width of the dress at the tip of her fingers, the left and right are about 99-100 pixels, while the middle one is 105 pixels wide. Her face in all three images is about 38-39 pixels wide (measured at the earlobe), so that rules out they stretched the entire image slightly. But 5 pixels is significant enough to kind of muddy the validity of the OP’s message since it no longer rules out all but the appearance of the dress. It sadly happens that sometimes effects are exaggerated, even when there is a real effect at play.
I think the biggest difference is the cut of the dress.
Bingo
Look at the amount of visible background inside the elbows. They are each increasing in conforming the body as you move to the right.