Don't know if any anons have already stated this, but after an hour or so of examining pixel by pixel, it wasn't forensic evidence that led me to the conclusion, but glaringly obvious inconsistencies between the UI and the model of phone she's holding.

Look at the delete/backspace button on the keyboard. It's a gray background, and the icon is a black outline, with a grey interior. This button design was last seen on iOS 7.

When iOS 8 rolled out, the delete button was redesigned, having a grey background, and a solid white icon, with only the "X" in the center being cut out, to reveal the gray background. no outline, no black.

Ok, so her OS is, at the newest, iOS 7, which was released September of 2013.

Her phone has no button on top, but has a button on the right side, a design first introduced in 2014 with the iPhone 6—which shipped with iOS 8 already installed. In fact, the iPhone 6 (or newer iPhones with the power button on the right side, and no button on the top) can't even run iOS 7. The newest model of iPhone that is capable of running iOS 7 was the iPhone 5c.

So, basically:

Delete/backspace button shows use of an operating system running on a phone that cannot run that operating system. There's your evidence of fakery.

>>287219

I'd guess that yes, it refers to the RAW file format.

Not that any standard EXIF data (short of GPS coordinates) would be of much interest, but the RAW format would only contain non-destructive (reversible) edits—and even then, those edits would only be present if it were bundled with the XMP data.

>>287238

Oh shit, you're right! I didn't realize that design was reinstated for iOS 11.

That's what I get for investigating while hung over.

>>287267

>>287238

Ok, that said, a new email message in iOS 11 has rounded corners at the top of the new message "card". The card corners in her message look much more squared

>>287343

Yes.

>>287348

No, I have an X, the keyboard layout is different (though the design of the button is the same).

>>287359

I actually did this w/ a friend's hand in front of the screen, then scaled down and compressed the pic, sharpened like hell in photoshop, and did see that there was a similar (to the pic we've seen) amount of noise around the edge of the thumb over the screen (specifically lots of green artifacting).

>>287260

Unless there is a matching XMP file in the directory, in which case, when the RAW photo is opened in, say, Adobe Camera Raw, any RAW edits would be present—though reversible. That said, the only edits you'd find would be sharpness, white balance, color balance, tint, geometric correction, etc. No superimposition or anything that alters the actual pixel data—just different rules for how software should render the RAW image.

>>287411

RAW format only refers to files created in the camera, with the exception of some extensions like .NEF (Lightroom's RAW format that has slightly smaller filesizes and more universal compatibility than manufacturer specific RAW files.)

Other raw file extensions include CR2 (Canon), NIF (Nikon), and I'm sure several others.

Photos can be uncompressed, yet altered—TIFF files are the best example of this (and often times larger ones have multiple layers as well).

>>287393

You might be surprised how many pro photographers/editors do sloppy jobs, especially when working with a high volume of images.

Also assume that for every 1 photo editor who has the right eye and skills to do good work, there are 99 assholes with photoshop, no skill, and bosses/clients who can't tell the difference.

It is difficult to create a convincing superimposition of an electronic display, with so many varyingly intense sources of light from the screen, balancing with room light sources (and exact color temperature at the location of the device screen), not to mention multiple layers of diffusion, refraction, and reflection—glass screens, screen protectors, smudges, fingerprints…

It's much easier to shop something like Hillary's head on the body of a horse, for example.

>>287385

Yeah, saw that, I'm not sure what he's saying the evidence is. Here's a straight inversion, with the orange display. The only thing that looks out of line is it's slightly easier to see spatial inconsistency between the plane of the screen content and the plane of the device face.

>>287467

Bit-by-bit? Definitely unlikely, unless the subject was something extremely high-value, like Obama's birth certificate.

>>287533

iMessage has the Cancel button on the top right, and Send is in the message input area.

This is almost certainly the native Mail app on iOS.

>>287738

Sorry, I'm a bit confused here. I was referring to this still photo. I'm guessing you're talking about video footage?