home / articles / Xbox pictures fake ArticlesMicrosoft faked XBOX pictures!!!! What we thought possible, is now a reality; Microsoft has faked the pictures of their Xbox games. So far people have found evidence of this incident in the "AMPER" pictures, a snowboarding game for the "PC-IN-A-BOX" that we know as Xbox. We have also found some other interesting... things... Article from Computer and Videogames: "Microsoft in "fake" shot scandal? An eagle eyed reader identifying himself as Kahuna emailed CVG to ask why one of the Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding shots featured a static ?boarder, whilst the ?speedometer? was reading 51mph. He also suggested the boarder looked ?cut out?, like he?d been placed on the backdrop as an afterthought. We scratched our chins, but we weren?t sure.The next instalment in the saga came when an image was posted on an IGN message board, suggesting the lens flare in the shot was faked. The flare effect apparently bore an uncanny resemblance to one of the stock lens flare effects that can be applied by the image manipulation software Photoshop. You can check out the evidence and make up your own mind by following the link on the left. We applied the default Photoshop lens flare to the image, and to our surprise the flare matched the one on the Microsoft image. Then we zoomed in on the shot, and it seems that the character is a higher resolution than the backdrop. Check our zoomed in picture, and draw your own conclusions. Microsoft hadn?t returned our calls at the time of going to print. Dean Scott" Article from Nintendojo: Rumors have begun to appear on various message boards that contend that, at least, one of the officially published X-Box pictures have been doctored/altered after the fact. The pic in question is one from Microsoft's snowboarding game, Amped. In particular, the one which displays the close-up view of a male skier wearing goggles. A few observant young lads claim that first, the lens flare in the screenshot was generated using a standard Adobe Photoshop (TM) filter and secondly, there is reason to believe that the image of the skier was actually pasted into the frame. These are interesting accusations, indeed. I, for one, can vouch for the fact that the lens flare used in the pic can very easily be generated in Photoshop and is almost, if not, identical to the one in the screenshot. Also, upon zooming in to the edges of the image of the skier, there are times where pixels from the background of the image actually overlap pixels of the skier himself. Could the Amped programmers just have used the exact same lens flare algorithm used by Photoshop? Are we just seeing anti-aliasing artifacts surrounding the skier? We'll just post the images and let you decide. " Check out the pictures and decide!: Picture comparison with Photoshop (TM) lensflare filter The lens flare effect in the "Amper" picture was created in Adobe Photoshop (TM). (That was... CHEAP!) More evidence on Photoshop (TM) alterations:
Notice the white edges and the
pixel resolution difference between the character and the
background... This alone is a shame for Micro$oft, but what about
the inexperienced guy that made the picture for them?
Why do the pictures look better than the videos?
Click here to see the Amped video from Xbox official site and compare it to the picture below...
A low... and cheap move
by Micro$oft. We are wondering if the other pictures are also
fake? We?ll keep you updated with the truth... stay tuned. Related features: Yamauchi
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