The Actual Sequence of Events with Documentation

At the right is an image of the hard copy released along with the PhotoShop hackery.  This image suffers from none of the nonsensical image editing problems seen on the web site.

I posted recently about the online forms of this document.

Why anyone would go through the bother of making and releasing a PhotoShop mess out of an image like this is really hard to understand.  Its also hard to understand why finding this image took a bit of effort.  Apparently this was a handout supplied during the press conference.

I don't see the value added with the funky green and white "safety paper" background, I don't see the value of any enhancement of the image, splitting it into layers, etc.

The image here is quite clear and easy enough to read without such enhancements.

Now this document was acquired through the following sequence of events (documented here).  You can see from this news article that the same bogus background and I suppose crappy PhotoShop job was done in association with it.

This document was acquired through this series of events:

Followed by this:

And finally:

And it was originally noted publicly here:

This all makes reasonable sense and it seems incredible that this would not have been all put together in one place online in the first place.

For those in doubt that the image at the top is realistic you can see this form the same era:

These documents, which have the impression of an official state seal, demonstrate the same layout and structure as the original PhotoShoped versions.  The markings at the bottom, and the seal, are no longer used.  These documents are known as "raised seal" documents and were required for things like drivers licenses before the computerization of records began in earnest to prevent identity theft.

Which is confirmed publicly with this:

These documents have no corresponding PhotoShop nonsense.

As to any confusion or issues such as validity beyond the actual PhotoShop files I cannot comment.

I would hope someone would track down the source of the PhotoShop nonsense.

As far as I know this is the only compilation of all of this in one place.