Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, must brush up on her Photoshop expertise, apparently.

Over the weekend, the royal household released the first image of Middleton since her belly surgical procedure in January. As the photograph of her and her three smiling kids began to flow into on-line, the Associated Press and different wire providers issued an urgent notification to journalists to not use the picture in editorial articles, suspecting the photograph could be digitally altered.

Zooming in and inspecting the royal photograph carefully, it’s straightforward to see edges on the kids’s sweaters and different inconsistent particulars, significantly within the space round Princess Charlotte’s hand, that look like manipulated through photo-editing software program. For instance, parts of Middleton’s hair seem to have an unnatural texture, and the zipper on her jacket results in nowhere.

Middleton admitted altering the photograph, taken by Prince William, in a Monday post on the couple’s X account, expressing “apologies for any confusion the family photograph” brought on. What she didn’t cop to was how she edited the photograph, what instruments she used. That sin of omission has given on-line sleuths room to proceed speculating in regards to the weird circumstances across the picture. Some theorized that the picture had been generated by synthetic intelligence; one viral tweet recommended Middleton’s face was lifted from an old Vogue cover. Odds are, although, that the picture was only a poorly executed Photoshop job. For those that use the software usually, the tells are apparent.

“My guess is that the errors are coming from the stamp tool,” says WIRED design director Alyssa Walker. “It fuses the image together by pulling another part of the image.” When used haphazardly, this sort of content material stamp software may simply introduce errors to a picture, like the sides of clothes showing to be lower off at random with poorly outlined outlines.