FotoForensics is an online tool that uses algorithms to determine if a photo is real or if it has been modified, etc. ELA (Error Level Analysis) is one of the algorithms used on the site... along with metadata and JPEG percentage.
I'm not very familiar with the in's and out's of what all the results mean, but there are some clearly VISIBLE discrepancies between the image I uploaded on the site and the ELA image (which highlights the JPEG compression rate). The way I would describe what an ELA version looks like is similar to what you'd see if you used a black and white drawing filter on a picture... ya know, the ones that convert your picture into one that looks like a drawing of your original... IDK if I'm making any sense here.
Anyway, when I uploaded the picture of SM with his TM tattoo, the ELA image looked a lot different to me. The boxers appeared to be a solid color as opposed to the checkered boxers in TM's photo. On the right side of the picture, it appears there was something in the background that TM might have cropped out, whited out, etc. And, it also looks like the person in the original photo had his arms behind his back (you could see a definite change in the pixels right above where his gun is) and you can't see arms behind SM's back in the tattoo picture.
In fact, without taking any of the data given into consideration, when I stared at the photo TM posted (yes, it WAS as horrifying as it sounds)... it looks photoshopped to me. Are we to believe that he's standing in front a pure white wall with no shadows at all? And the gun looks weird to me too. The whole thing is just BIZARRO. :snooty: