you haven't dealt with me
I have seen more strange emails and photographs that, at first glance, seemed to be true but were really hoaxes. Truth is we WANT them to be true and that's why we don't give them a second thought. Most email hoaxes work on our emotions... they either tug at the heart, make us feel guilty or get us angry. The tricky ones are filled with half-truths. Photographs should always be suspect. I have Photoshop and can tell you that it's a very powerful graphics program. You can do anything with it. I've seen some real good ones
There's a great one going around about people who have their cats painted. "It costs them over $15,000 to get it done"
It's very clever, the pictures are phenomenal and look incredibly real! Ah, but it's just a fake. Check these out:
<img src=http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/arts/graphics/paintcat05.jpg>
<img src=http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/arts/graphics/paintcat11.jpg>
<img src=http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/arts/graphics/paintcat03.jpg>
There's also another one that shows art work on trucks. Again they all are ingenious designs, very well done and certainly look "real". However, if you look closely, you'll notice that in each picture, the little, untouched up details of the trucks are all identical (sometimes they change the background). It's the SAME truck, only edited in Photoshop
Here's an example:
<img src=http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/eye-tricks/optic-pictures/pepsi-light-truck-illusion.jpg>
<img src=http://www.liam.co.uk/Image16.jpg>
So NEVER trust anything you read in an email. ALWAYS look them up on Snopes.com or a similar web site before passing them on
Here's the only hand painted, enameled IH ever made (made by me anyway
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