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.
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.
You think you child porn distributor?
Haha, fixed now. Thanks.
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.
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.
I remember seeing this in some subreddit, and a bunch of brainrotted AIddicts were too busy spouting “here’s a way more realistic version from Gemini” to read the room and figure out that they were being made fun of
