Lovely photo of Catherine for Mothering Sunday

The media are now out of control, it’s bullying

Now the Associated Press have withdrawn the picture saying it’s been manipulated.
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This has all the hallmarks of an unmitigated PR disaster. What were they thinking?

Yes,that photo has been photoshopped to there and back.

What’s the crime ?

yes this was on Bbc News earlier.. while the photo is authentic it has been digitally altered

One royal expert ! ‘By saying William took the photograph it fuels talk that the marriage is in trouble’

Why? you have to ask yourself why??? Can’t people just be themselves why alter anything on the photo always striving for perfection and perfection doesn’t exist

What was altered ?

Inconsistency with Charlotte’s hand

Does it matter if the photo was photoshopped? It’s a nice photo of a mother with her children on Mother’s Day.

If you look closely at the photo, at Princess Charlotte's left hand where is appears from the cuff of her cardigan, it looks very odd. It seems clear that some manipulation has gone on.

The Associated Press has clear rules:

The content of a photograph must not be altered in PhotoShop or by any other means. No element should be digitally added to or subtracted from any photograph ... Only retouching or the use of the cloning tool to eliminate dust and scratches are acceptable.

Put them in the tower

I know. It seems minor and an overreaction but in this case it seems even the rulers have to keep to the rules.

Doubt they knew the rules or doctored the photograph

It’s incredibly rare for AP to issue a kill notification for a picture from such a high profile source. The picture was issued to make the point that KM is out of the hospital and well - that may or may not be the case, but AP can’t run or provide the image to its clients if there’s proof it’s been photoshopped.

Why change such a small thing as a child’s hand and why while they were at it, didn’t they change Louis hand the middle crossed finger looks very odd, it looks like he has two fingers crossing over so if they didn’t change that why change hers
It’s all very very strange
Why change anything ?why not leave a pleasant family photo alone with any tiny imperfections as still part of it

Oh for the days when you took photos and either sent the film off or took it to Boots to be developed and hoped the photos turned out ok and not blurred or heads cut off.

Why can't the press just say it's a lovely photo which it is . Why analysis it ?

Loads of their photos are photoshopped - why are we surprised?

Apparently there's certain rules that are applied for press photos and no photoshopping is one of them. All this has done is stir up more speculation which is apparently rife anyway. They do employ people who job it is to manage their PR. They are not doing a good job at the moment.

In the scheme of things, and in view if what is going on in the world, does it really matter? What a wonderful world it would be if that was all there was to complain / worry about.

I suppose most people think the Royal Family are above such silly stuff obviously they re not and it’s causing a daft stir

I suppose people are thinking if they can’t be truthful over a lovely family photo what else are they hiding /changing / lying over
I m not observant enough to not take it for what it is …,a nice family photo but once you see one lie you expect others

For goodness sake imagine all your comments if this was Meghan She’d be hung drawn and quartered for weeks and weeks 🤣🤣

Apparently the tree in the background is in leaf to a greater extent than it would be in early March. So the speculation is that this photo was taken at a different time of year. I don’t care either way but I’m fed up of being lied to by government and is the RF now also treating us like idiots?

I think this is professional vindictiveness because the Wales like to release photographs taken by themselves, usually by Catherine. It also creates a story out of nothing. This is really going to aid her recovery, isn't it!

The press associations need to remember that members of their fraternity were partly responsible for the death of her mother-in-law by their irresponsible behaviour.

But look at this from another point of view Eazybee
When Prince Andrew said the photo of him with his arm around an underage girl had been photoshopped ( and it pretty obviously had when you looked carefully) everyone drowned him and it was poopood and went no further if I remember rightly
Once you tell one lie (and photoshopping is a lie) then you open yourself to criticism and shouldnt be surprised when professionals call you out for it
So yes it does matter I think