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  • I think a child porn distributor tried to hide his face using that swirl tool. And he found out that Photoshop will unswirl it quite happily.

    • That’s good until you realize that it’s a very bad sign that Photoshop is now capable of happiness 😬🤔

    • If anyone is wondering how: it’s roughly akin to rotating a photo and rotating it back (on a non 90° shift) - the input pixels get moved around with some interpolation.

    • 2 months

      Yeah, it was just reversed.

      If anyone wants to seriously sensor an image, it has to be a destructive edit where pixels are removed, not transformed.

    • Mr. Swirl Face. I would link to his Wikipedia entry, but his Wikipedia entry DOESN’T SHOW WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE.

      So just search the name.

    • Using the spray tool isn’t much better. I’ve sent people PMs of their de-censored faces to show them how leaving 50% of pixels untouched is plenty of information.