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[–]richard_photograph 1136 points1137 points ago

this isnt real..its impossible to have your blacks look that dark in such pale skin.

source: im a pale skinned guy with black tattoos

[–]pburn883 708 points709 points ago

i resent that. As a black man...i look just as black on white women

[–]McFeely_Smackup 420 points421 points ago

A white womans father might disagree...you'll look at least 3 shades blacker when on top of his daughter.

[–]pagaladmee 170 points171 points ago

50 shades

[–]Fenrirzero 393 points394 points ago

fiddy shades...

I'll show myself out.

[–]hates_novelty_accts 47 points48 points ago

[–]Br3nd4n 50 points51 points ago

About tree fiddy shades?

[–]whatupwodie 4 points5 points ago

I said "NO LOCKNESS MONSTA"

[–]textual_predditor 4 points5 points ago

I gave him a dollar.

[–]molkhal 2 points3 points ago

Damn loch ness monster!

[–]seagramsextradrygin 98 points99 points ago

50 shades of black - pitching this porn idea tomorrow.

[–]UnholyDemigod 19 points20 points ago

Get white tattoos. They look really good, and you can actually pull them off

[–]mangarooboo 71 points72 points ago

Hahaha I'm really dumb. I read that and I thought, "Wow, black people can peel off tattoos after they've been inked? Do they have to be white?" and I imagined a black guy pulling some white-out kinda stuff off of his leg.

Pull it off != peel it off.

I feel so stupid it's ridiculous.

[–]elanasaurus 26 points27 points ago

I read it as that too, thank god I'm not alone in that. I'll be in the corner giggling with shame.

[–]mangarooboo 11 points12 points ago

Hooray! I'm lying in my bed and I had to give myself kind of a time out after I wrote that comment. Writing it down really highlighted how dumb I felt. Feel. I still feel it.

[–]nuclear_thundercane 312 points313 points ago

I think it's painted on, not a tattoo.

[–]P5i10cYBiN 469 points470 points ago

Look at the lighting... it's digital.

[–]Chromium_Battle_Stan 116 points117 points ago

...You mean the lighting that's painted on? or are you suggesting that the entire leg is digital?

[–]nagash666 350 points351 points ago

yes! it is a jpg

[–]cookedsushi 318 points319 points ago

confirmed. i took a screenshot and it was a .jpg

[–]FlamingSoySauce 92 points93 points ago

pics or it didn't happen

[–]NonPermissive 298 points299 points ago

[–]_xiphiaz 71 points72 points ago

I think that is sufficient .jpg

[–]laboye 57 points58 points ago

[–]awittygamertag 1 point2 points ago

Oh god, the horror.

[–]hasslefree 82 points83 points ago

jleg

[–]dsade 67 points68 points ago

Jpeg-leg?

[–]atl2rva 51 points52 points ago

yar

[–]everything_regretted 10 points11 points ago

har

[–]ThunderingNuisance 26 points27 points ago

Look at the shin. The shin is being brightly lit. Even the black section would have a sheen on it if this was real. It's still skin, after all.

[–]richard_photograph 8 points9 points ago

seems more believable ..if that shit was real id have to have something done like that.

[–]Lettucex 10 points11 points ago

I am also a pale skinned girl with black tattoos. I confirm.

[–]keliath 2 points3 points ago

Another pale skinned female with black tattoos reporting in. I confirm her confirmation.

[–]MysterRee 2 points3 points ago

I affirm this

[–]Agehn 31 points32 points ago

Besides which, I really doubt a tattoo artist skilled enough to do that work would be dumb enough to ink an entire leg with an optical illusion that only works with the specific perspective used in this image and not, say, when the inkee is standing up wearing shorts.

[–]_xiphiaz 8 points9 points ago

It would actually still work well when standing - you can see the top and front of the cutouts, so it would only look wrong when behind or below the person (assuming a standing position).

[–]Soiseiseki 0 points1 point ago

unless theye not really leg

[–]cheebnrun 0 points1 point ago

Not if it was just done

[–]psychroclasm 6 points7 points ago

I'd have to disagree. If it were fairly new, it's possible. I'm fairly certain this is body paint, but still.

[–]is45toooldforreddit 18 points19 points ago

I doubt it's even body paint, I think it's photoshop.

[–]sysera 35 points36 points ago

Maybe it's Maybelline.

[–]GothicFuck 2 points3 points ago

Maybe she's just born with it.

[–]whatupnig 5 points6 points ago

That's why you do multiple sessions. My black sections are black black, they still look fresh after 8 years...

But yeah, this is a little to clean on th lines, and too perfect of a black color, it's too consistant.

[–]richard_photograph 4 points5 points ago

i know a black dude who has black ink on his face and got it redone as soon as it healed going on 6 times now and his shit still aint that dark.

my black inks are black as hell too but nowhere near the depth of this black , it has to be painted or digitally edited.

[–]RaoulDuke92 5 points6 points ago

Well no shit...

[–]TheSalsa 16 points17 points ago

This would be cool if it could be done with a prosthesis. I can see it now. 'Bling my Appendage!'

[–]OverWilliam 620 points621 points ago

[–]vuxa 493 points494 points ago

[–]MapleSyrupIsAwesome 169 points170 points ago

I dig how that text was apparently actually part of that "scene".

[–]vampyrechoirboi 20 points21 points ago

It's true!! I was there.. that's me on the front of the ship.

[–]Hiphoppington 84 points85 points ago

[–]mikemcg 22 points23 points ago

C'mon, use your words.

[–]Kelvara 51 points52 points ago

But if you say "upvote!" you get massively downvoted. However, if you post a stupid overused gif to convey the exact same meaning you rake in the upvotes. Such is the way of Reddit.

[–]cardinalpuff 1 point2 points ago

Bullshit! Not only did I take that photo but I totally won international awards for it. It wasn't edited or anything, It's kind of a big deal. Please if you have any questions ask them in the comments...

[–]auraaurora 12 points13 points ago

[–]orphanitis 13 points14 points ago

[–]JayStax 1 point2 points ago

[–]sertman 3 points4 points ago

holy shit i laughed pretty hard at that

[–]tomakeredditsuckless 69 points70 points ago

Hasn't this method of "detecting" Photoshops been entirely disproved? Hence why a site doing the same thing years ago used to be posted to reddit all the time and now isn't any more....

[–]sailawaysail 38 points39 points ago

Exactly, its all bullshit, there used to be one called errorlevelanalysis.com and it had a like an absurd amount of false positives

[–]vincentrevelations 29 points30 points ago

Actually, error level analysis (the technique) works exactly as promised. The problem is, nobody reads the instructions.

The site used by OP has a tutorial, which he didn't read.

The original ELA site used to have a disclaimer below the results page, which nobody ever read.

ELA is used to find differences in jpg error levels. That's it. The primary use is to find parts of a collage, so to speak. Things like retouching might not induce errors, while things like just saving in Photoshop might induce lots of errors. High contrast areas will always be bright.

[–]tomakeredditsuckless 2 points3 points ago

Thanks that was the one I was thinking of.

[–]NonPermissive 4 points5 points ago

I don't know about in general, but for this one it's complete bullshit. For one thing, the edits to the photo were probably done in lossless PNG.

[–]guchilist 60 points61 points ago

Would you mind ELI5 me that picture?

[–]Zizhou 122 points123 points ago

JPEGs are a "lossy" file format, which means that they lose some information each time they are saved as a new image. When editing a photo, areas that are touched up are going to have a greater amount of information loss relative to areas that weren't when the finished photo is resaved. The white areas along the leg show that an extensive amount of errors from the JPEG compression have accumulated in those areas, indicating that it is highly likely that it was 'shopped.

[–]so_this_is_me 33 points34 points ago

However this technique of detection is easy to avoid and prone to mistakes. For example it tends to overemphasize edges and colours into the red spectrum.

This can lead to things being "highlighted" in the analysis that are real / not altered. Long story short take the analysis with a pinch of salt too.

[–]vincentrevelations 12 points13 points ago

Yeah, the tattoo is basically a small area with lots of high contrast, making error level analysis pretty useless as explained on their site.

[–]HarmonicMinorShred 28 points29 points ago

Oh really? I'm from playskool.

[–]illredditlater 24 points25 points ago

If you were to redraw over your drawing, it will lose quality around the areas you redrew. This science thingy took the picture and the white areas show that someone did some redrawing on the original picture.

[–]HarmonicMinorShred 22 points23 points ago

And I'm from Mattel. Well, I'm not really from Mattel. I'm actually from a smaller company that was purchased in a leverage buyout.

[–]whambo666 5 points6 points ago

I am Duplo. ELI2.

[–]Zizhou 14 points15 points ago

Pretend that you are JPEG. When you draw a picture of a picture, your drawing is going to be terrible compared to the original, since you are two years old and lacking some fine motor skills. When we put the two drawings side by side on the refrigerator, we can clearly see that even though they're supposed to be the same thing, yours is shittier. That difference is how we tell that something has probably been shopped and that you are not the artistic prodigy that your parents think you are.

[–]doctorslog 9 points10 points ago

Thanks for the explanation you just got my first ever upvote been reading a long time without wanting to sign up.

[–]Tarblz 3 points4 points ago

Does this technique work for lossless formats as well?

[–]emu420 18 points19 points ago

Considering the technique specifically looks at information loss, I don't see why it would.

[–]SQUID_FUCKER 5 points6 points ago

Thanks. Now can you do an ELI[5] for the same thing?

[–]HipsterSC 26 points27 points ago

JPEGs become crappy when you do shit to them.

Because photoshop works on some areas more, those areas become the most shitty.

If there are notable differences in the degree of shittyness, then the image is photoshoped. If it's not altered, the shittyness should be more or less the same throughout.

Got it?

[–]SQUID_FUCKER 9 points10 points ago

Perfect.

[–]Sisaac 6 points7 points ago

That's a lot of swearing for a 5 year-old oriented explanation.

[–]OverWilliam 74 points75 points ago

Sure thing.

JPEG is the file type best used for real-life photographs because of the way it compresses the picture. However, every time you save the photo it will make tiny little mistakes in the photo that are usually invisible to the naked eye (these are sometimes called "artifacts"). These imperfections congregate around sharp changes in color, which are called "edges".

Every time a file is saved in JPEG, more little imperfections are added. That's the background blue/black noise on this picture. So say this picture was downloaded and re-saved 5 times; that means it'll have five "saves" worth of "noise" on it. If another picture is spliced together with that picture (say, for example, we put a Scumbag Steve hat on it that has been saved 7 times) then it will have more imperfections (more "noise") than the surrounding photo. It will not match. Even if we then save that new, edited photo 3 or 4 more times, the Scumbag Steve hat will always have three "saves" worth of extra "noise", making it visibly different compared with the rest of the photo.

In this case, if the picture were real the whole thing would be more-or-less the same shade of blue. There would be obvious edges and clusters of imperfections around areas of high detail (so more imperfections on the "tattoo" section is to be expected). But, the significantly lighter color around the designs of the "tattoo" indicate that either the tattoo was added completely (which is my guess) or it was simply HEAVILY touched up with Adobe's editing tools. Some other areas that you can see have been edited are the white glows on the sheet, the reflection on the leg at the very far Right edge, where she is sitting directly on the sheet, and the bottom edge of the leg on the Right side of the picture. These all have visible evidence of editing.

The tricky thing about using this tool is that there's no guarantee what the "edited bits" will look like-- it changes from picture to picture. In this case, they're glowing white-ish. In other cases the pattern might not match rather than the color. If the whole image looked white and glow-y, then nothing stands out and it's probably genuine. So you can't say "What bits glow white, those are photoshopped", you have to say "Which parts are obviously different from the photo around it" and that's where changes have been made.

tl;dr: The glowing white bits don't match the rest of the photo, so we can tell it's been photoshopped.

[–]iluvucorgi 27 points28 points ago

What if I took a photo of the photo?

[–]FridayNightHoops 6 points7 points ago

If I copy/paste a photo back and forth from hard disk to hard disk, does it loose any bit of quality due to new savings or does this only happen when you ''access'' the pic to edit it? Not very well formulated question, but you should get my point.

[–]OverWilliam 9 points10 points ago

That's actually a really good question. No, the process of encoding the picture into JPEG format is what adds artifacts. You would have to open the file up in an editing program (the program will "unpack" the image to be worked on) and then save it again to add imperfections. Transferring the file from location to location on your harddrive (or between harddrives) is moving the whole file as a single piece, so it won't cause these imperfections.

Now, there's a separate chance that your computer will make a copying error and spoil some data completely independently of this process, but we call that "corruption." It doesn't happen nearly as much today as it used to in the early days of the internet, just because the programming has gotten much better and far more reliable than it was.

[–]supermanface 6 points7 points ago

solid explanation most people could understand to a complete stranger with a tl;dr that actually saves you from reading what you wrote, 10/10

[–]joeblessyou 2 points3 points ago

Not now, guchilist, I'm working. We'll go get some ice cream later ok?

[–]ReallyCleverMoniker 8 points9 points ago

ELI5:
It's shopped

[–]irving_zissmann 10 points11 points ago

HEY EVERYONE OP IS A PHONY! A GREAT BIG FAT PHONY!!

[–]nibb0r 29 points30 points ago

Oh, come on. These tools are deeply flawed. Instead of arguing in a blind rage, I ran a little experiment. Just for reddit.

Test 1: Original image, sized 25% and saved as JPG with IrfanView at '95'
That's a suspicious looking shell, you might say

Test 2: Obvious shop, saved as JPG in PShop at '4'
That toe belongs there.

The methodology behind the tool points out areas of high contrast. How is that an indication of a shop job? YES, in the very, very limited circumstance that a poor quality image was shooped with high quality content and saved as a high quality jpeg, then it might actually help you see the modified areas, if you can't just see them by looking closely.

[–]Tea_Vea 2 points3 points ago

But you copied the extra toe from the same image. If you read the explanation by OverWilliam above, you'll see it's based off of how many times different parts of an image has been saved (if I'm not interpreting incorrectly).

[–]punk1n13 2 points3 points ago

If you look through the tutorial on the website, you can see they copy books from the same image and it shows a high ELA value.

[–]gormster 8 points9 points ago

I think this site might be bullshit... I just tried it on a pic that I uploaded to Flickr and is straight off my iPhone. It's got huge white glowing areas as well.

http://www.fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=8b5b90067ed8538d6411b43a11409f502cfc6a47.449478

[–]OverWilliam 20 points21 points ago

"Glowing White" does not necessarily mean "Photoshopped." We expect to see a contrast in the image because of the contrast in color between the glowing white screens and the dark background. The reason the glowing white set off alarm bells in the above photo is because two areas that are both "skin tone" should read as the same color in the analysis, but those didn't. Your photo is consistent; same-y colors in the original photo result in same-y colors in the analysis.

This site is not a glowing white "photoshop detector", it is a tool for gaining data on how an image is behaving.

Also, check it out: Your image is completely free of little red and blue blotches all over it. The one I posted of the OP has little red and blue squares all over it. This is a sign of Adobe Photoshop's auto-sharpening tool. In yours the "static" is regular and evenly distributed. This means that Adobe Photoshop's auto-sharpening tool has not been used on it (the auto-sharpening is set to default every time an image is saved in Photoshop, if the setting is not turned off). So not only would I say that this photo is not edited, I would say it's never even been opened in Photoshop and immediately closed again (which jibes with your claim).

Props for critical thinking and examining things yourself. :)

[–]goldenguyz 5 points6 points ago

[–]zeamaize 1 point2 points ago

SO what you are saying is... you really can tell by the pixels?

[–]Zer_ 66 points67 points ago

This is fake, however you definitely CAN get that effect on a Tattoo.

http://img.designswan.com/2009/Art/3dtattoo/10.jpg

[–]duck_duck_duck 61 points62 points ago

why on earth would anyone want a 3d tattoo of a fucking huge spider

[–]Zer_ 63 points64 points ago

To scare the shit out of you.

[–]ProjectStormy 4 points5 points ago

Yea, she can't see it, but sneak up behind her and you'll NOPE the fuck outta there.

Imagine the guy getting her doggy style?! OH GOD

[–]BearsBeetsBattlestar 5 points6 points ago

Maybe that guy really likes people smacking the shit out of his shoulder.

[–]BronzedNipples 1499 points1500 points ago

This is NOT WTF. This is fucking awesome.

[–][deleted] 541 points542 points ago

Don't think it is real, but all I could think about when I saw it was how much I wanted one.

[–]snowlion13 125 points126 points ago

as a tattoo artist, this is not real

[–]BlackArtsTattooer 27 points28 points ago

Thank you. This doesn't even kind of look real.

[–]Twinkling82 2 points3 points ago

Came here to say this. The black is too black and I'm not even beginning on the white...

[–]Sfdavidbest 192 points193 points ago

The leg or the tattoo?

[–]creepyeyes 535 points536 points ago

The bed.

[–]JohnnyCashed 178 points179 points ago

That mattress looks mad comfy

[–]HoHoNOPE 98 points99 points ago

Yea bro, hella fuckin' balls-to-the-wall comfy.

[–]PalmelaHanderson 72 points73 points ago

Nads to the pads!

[–]moorechez67 57 points58 points ago

muff to the fluff

[–]j2cool 43 points44 points ago

Junk to the bunk.

[–]zosoyoung 54 points55 points ago

genitalia contacting the sleeping surface

[–]duckrodeo 36 points37 points ago

Snugglies for the uglies.

[–]Kaddus 16 points17 points ago

You're right. Its Photoshop, not a tattoo.

[–]cyberslick188 32 points33 points ago

I think it's real, but this is probably the ONLY angle you could see it from and get that 3D impression.

[–]The_Mexorcist26 20 points21 points ago

Wait, I'm in r/wtf? I thought this was r/pics.

[–]The_dog_says 27 points28 points ago

[–]Quothefool 10 points11 points ago

Subscribed. No hesitation.

[–]xORioN63 19 points20 points ago

You will like /r/woahdude

[–]MiranDaVinci 16 points17 points ago

But it makes me itchy.

[–]the_birdie_finger 50 points51 points ago

It does look pretty awesome, but then again it looks disgusting to me.

[–]LettersFromTheSky 10 points11 points ago

It looks more creepy to me.

[–]tie3278 11 points12 points ago

i agree, i'm not an ink guy at all, but if someone said I could get something like that on me.....i consider some options

[–]kjs86 6 points7 points ago

Came here to say...oh why even bother

[–]SaggyBallsHD 290 points291 points ago

Trypophobia is in full effect for me. This makes me extremely uncomfortable.

[–]gis8 101 points102 points ago

Thank god im not the only one, fucking hate this shit.

[–]megustadotjpg 51 points52 points ago

You're never the only one.

[–]TheHaberdasher 22 points23 points ago

It feels like my brain is going haywire, this feeling sucks and I finally can put a name to it. fuck this shit

[–]ascorbique 45 points46 points ago

1) Googled trypophobia 2) OK, don't understand the big deal, let me click on Google Imag... HAA, my eyes, give me the bleach!

[–]amosbas 13 points14 points ago

What? I don't feel anything when I see these pictures. :/

[–]sumaulus 25 points26 points ago

Congratulations. We'll send you to deal with the various skin diseases while we curl up and cry.

[–]blacksheep998 33 points34 points ago

I did the same, most of those images are faker than the OP's. This and this, as well as quite a few other pictures that came up, are simply lotus seed pods photoshopped into people.

This one is lamprey mouths 'shopped onto someone's fingers.

Most of the rest are either extreme closeups of corals, sponges, mushrooms or Surinam toads. The toads are very cool animals, here's a video of one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA

The few that might be real show either severe fungal infections (including the worst case of athletes foot I've ever seen) or are botfly attacks.

[–]timdorr 38 points39 points ago

Who has two thumbs and isn't sleeping tonight? This guy!

[–]zabuma 6 points7 points ago

Oh thank god... picture 4 freaked me the fuck out...

[–]drdreyfus 52 points53 points ago

Oh man, I did not know this had a name until today. I totally have this.

[–]thedieversion 74 points75 points ago

Everyone does. It's not a "true" phobia. The brain tends to see clusters of holes in the body as a parasite or disease, thus triggering this response.

EDIT: Here's the source if you guys need one: Link

[–]dakineman 9 points10 points ago

But it bothers me when it's a "good" thing too. For instance I can't stand cutting my delicious mangoes into squares and turning them inside out before I eat them.

[–]hasavagina 4 points5 points ago

Fucking pitting (or whatever it is called) a goddamn pomegranate. I love them but have a hard time watching what I am doing. Usually try and get my boyfriend to finish.

[–]bagels666 4 points5 points ago

Honestly, thank you for this explanation.

[–]stevejust 18 points19 points ago

Me neither, but apparently it isn't officially recognized.

The evolutionary psychologists I emailed were unwilling to speculate on the potential biological underpinnings for a fear of small, clustered holes. Trypophobia is not an official phobia recognized in scientific literature. For many (though perhaps not all) who have it, it’s probably not even a real phobia, which the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says must interfere “significantly with the person’s normal routine.”

Anyone want to petition the APA with me?

[–]OmegaDestroyer 7 points8 points ago

Only after they recognize never nudes

[–]zephyy 16 points17 points ago

Fuck you APA, this shit makes me feel physically ill and shudder and I just wanna curl up in a ball after seeing pictures like this.

[–]what_in_the_who_now 12 points13 points ago

Google it. I dare you.

[–]triplea20x 22 points23 points ago

Don't. You'll hate yourself

[–]AshsToAshs 29 points30 points ago

I did a Google search for Trypophobia, and didn't find any dictionary or wiki articles right away, so for some reason I click on Google Images... DO NOT IMAGE SEARCH THIS.

You have been warned.

[–]sensory 21 points22 points ago

Good thing a vast majority of those images are photoshopped, mainly seed pods on human skin. That doesn't make it less disgusting though.

[–]adharma 4 points5 points ago

Can you describe it then?

[–]s4r9am 7 points8 points ago

Imaine lily-pad like holes on the surface of your skin.

[–]adharma 15 points16 points ago

oooookay I think that's sufficient enough for me to nope the fuck out of here.

[–]sumaulus 2 points3 points ago

Holes in people's skin. Clusters of tiny holes. Like bee hives in someone's skin or some insect egg pods or some kind of fungus...in skin. I'm getting itchy just thinking about it.

[–]adharma 2 points3 points ago

Fuck sake, the last guy did it sufficiently enough, now Im gagging because I know exactly what you're talking about. FUCK.

[–]Luxray 5 points6 points ago

This shit fascinates the shit out of me and makes me feel all weird and have a very strong urge to touch it. I google image searched trypophobia like many of the people on this thread, and found this especially fascinating image. I want to run my fingers the fuck all over that. I love staring at and feeling holes in the skin.

[–]perennialsexytime 5 points6 points ago

My exact reaction to reading this:

Google that shit, look at images for a few seconds, shiver, close tab.

No words were spoken.

[–]wrb222 9 points10 points ago

Glad to see my fellow people here. This picture makes my fucking skin crawl

[–]J-scags 8 points9 points ago

you're not alone man. shiver

[–]ohdeargodwhat 9 points10 points ago

Don't fucking click google images. I think I'm gonna go throw up now. Holy freaking NOPE.

[–]houdini404 5 points6 points ago

same. im in medicine and i am comfortable with things that make many people throw up. this, however, makes me super uncomfortable. specifically when it's on humans. not sure why but i shiver when i see it

[–]Alpha_rho 5 points6 points ago

I just learned what the word meant but I've had this problem since I was a young kid. I saw a frog that had its offspring hatch out of its skin leaving a series of holes that have haunted me for 20 years.

[–]DaniUndead 4 points5 points ago

That damn frog. There was a huge picture of one in my high school bio book. I swear it opened to that page by default.

I was like, "Let's see it do that after I tape these pages together!"

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[–]SaggyBallsHD 1 point2 points ago

While Trypophobia isn't officially recognized by any governing bodies it seems a lot of people tonight have given this "feeling" a face. I get anxious, itchy, and a tad nauseous.

[–]vertazontal 1 point2 points ago

Up votes for you, holy shit I was nauseous looking at that.

[–]matviy 1 point2 points ago

Rediculously uncomfortable holy shit.

I closed the picture and it's still fucking with me.

[–]kindofawardance 2 points3 points ago

the fact that we share this feeling makes it no less ewwwwww for me. this is the kind of thing that appears on my girlfriend's legs in my worst nightmares.

[–]Samewrai 3 points4 points ago

grape bags do it for me... hated bagging groceries... they made me imagine similar holes in flesh like this tattoo

[–]beeUnit 0 points1 point ago

Yeah I'd take a serrated spoon and dig the shit out of that until it was gone, or I bled to death.

[–]itsfreshlyshorn 12 points13 points ago

I'd like to see this without all the photoshop

[–]AlpacaGod 57 points58 points ago

I thought this was going to be a 3D LEGO tattoo. I am disapoint.

[–]kevroy314 7 points8 points ago

You and me both buddy.

[–]belflandluvr 18 points19 points ago

This made me really uncomfortable. It's like looking at honeycombs or something.

[–]Zoids 21 points22 points ago

I read it as "3rD leg tattoo" not sure what I expected.

[–]The_mrs 9 points10 points ago

That dragon tattoo guy?

[–]kduffball 6 points7 points ago

what, something "fake" on reddit?

[–]TheTsel 21 points22 points ago

Am I the only one that finds this cringe-worthy?

[–]pilsner407 12 points13 points ago

no. It's definitely creepy.

[–]SpermWhale 7 points8 points ago

Almost looked like a wooden leg!

[–]Safety_Always_Off 3 points4 points ago

faker than fake

[–]MyCATisFSM 3 points4 points ago

Morons

[–]Shon7r 4 points5 points ago

how is this on the front page

[–]pixelObserver 3 points4 points ago

HOW TO DO THIS IN PHOTOSHOP here are two tutorials on how to create this effect. one is a screen cast, the other is broken down into stills: STILLS --- ScreenCast --these show the general idea, and take it to another level, however, the basics are there on how to do something like the image in this post.

[–]glyph42 3 points4 points ago

Lack of specular sheen on the dark parts of the tattoo = instantly recognized as photoshopped. Unless you're gluing black velvet to your leg, that ain't happening.

[–]diminishedfifth 3 points4 points ago

Only thing wtf about this is you trying to pass this off as a tattoo in r/wtf.

[–]Face2Palm 6 points7 points ago

I read this as 3D Lego tattoo and was a little disappointed =(

[–]SonOfSamJackson 2 points3 points ago

My tryptophobia is on high alert.

[–]BassheadPanda 20 points21 points ago

Who the fuck actually thinks that you can have flat black like that in any reasonably lit photograph.

If you don't use photoshop, do not join a discussion about whether or not an image is photoshopped.

[–]mikemcg 41 points42 points ago

You probably shouldn't be getting mad about a picture. Other people in this thread have managed to point out that the picture is photoshopped maturely and calmly, you should try to be more like them.

[–]KyroDCK 2 points3 points ago

Okay okay it's photoshopped please stop yelling. It's night time here and the kids are sleeping.

[–]ElBravo 1 point2 points ago

you know this already, don't you?

[–]Ap0crypha7 2 points3 points ago

Clever photo. Not real...but clever.

[–]nonplussedhobo 0 points1 point ago

I now have an intense urge to scratch that leg.

[–]Lalisaco 0 points1 point ago

I call bullshit. No way known this is a tattoo. It's either photoshopped or been drawn on with texta. Even when it's fresh, black ink does not look like that. It's an awesome pic, but certainly NOT a tattoo!!

[–]JakeBaked 0 points1 point ago

I call bullshit

[–]Whamaker 2 points3 points ago

3d bullshit tattoo

[–]samclive1 0 points1 point ago

I read this as 3d Lego... :(

[–]Doc85 1 point2 points ago

I don't believe this is real.

[–]daKINE792 1 point2 points ago

F A K E

[–]codyjb31 2 points3 points ago

[–]corbeau1980 5 points6 points ago

if thats real it is awesome

[–]Planex2012 4 points5 points ago

It is real......geppetto did the ink