Is the official photo of BMW M3 sedan a photoshop?

05 Oct

Posted by Horatiu B. as BMW M3

About an hour ago, autoblog has released a story on some BMW M3 sedan photos being leaked to the public. My first impression was WOW, nice find, but then our web administrator decided to take a closer look and after playing around with the picture in Photoshop, his first impression was that it's a fake.

Before he would give me a final answer, he decided to send the picture to an expert, but unfortunately we haven't heard back from her yet. In the mean time, I'm going to post the photo anyway and let you decided.

If any of you is a professional photoshop user, please feel free to comment but make sure you give us some good arguments that have support.

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3 Responses

Patrick Burt

October 5th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
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Shadow on doors looks Clone Stamped

That black line going along the handles, if it has depth, would make it hard to physically make the door handles. If it’s a shadow, it looks clone stamped.

The black part underneath the license plate isn’t in perspective or lit correctly. It’s lit as if it were round, radiotors or whatever the hell goes there aren’t typically round or curved.

The two door handles look identical, possibly cloned and stuck on.
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