"Rare" Picture Queen in Berlin 85 or 86 ?

I`ve found this picture of Freddie,Brian, John and an anonymos (well at least to me)woman in a Berlin Restaurant called " Bacco".
I`am not complete sure about the year. Something reminds me of 85`( you know what I guess) and I´ve also read about a meeting in Berlin at some point after Live Aid, IF I remember correctly.
In 86`Berlin was part of their Magic Tour...so it makes me a bit unsure about the correct date.

I would proably say mid to late 85

So strange. Freddie almost looks Photoshopped into the pic.


I'll say ....who knows

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

So strange. Freddie almost looks Photoshopped into the pic.


I'll say ....who knows[/QUOTE]

Yes, that was one of my first thoughts too. I`ve checked the picture data. It´was reworked with Photoshop 7.0. But that doesn`t mean anything .
The original is framed and hanging on the wall there along with many other celebrity pics.

I think John had bigger hair during The Magic Tour so I'd say it was taken earlier.

Freddie looks very suspicious. He looks too small, too blurry, the wooden wall behind him has a different colour (it looks like a part of the original background), he does not reflect on the table and I have a feeling I have seen him from this angle on a different photo

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

Freddie looks very suspicious. He looks too small, too blurry, the wooden wall behind him has a different colour (it looks like a part of the original background), he does not reflect on the table and I have a feeling I have seen him from this angle on a different photo[/QUOTE]

Have a look, their gallery is online available. Some of their older Pics have those "stripes" but on Freddie they look the most worse imo.

http://www.bacco.de/gaeste-galerie

There's no way Freddie hasn't been shopped in. He's way too small, and off colour.

EDIT: Actually, the colour is explained in that there's a vertical discoloured strip which happens to be covering Freddie. The perspective still looks off, anyway.

Part of the woman's hair is transparent, and a small part of it appears to surround Freddie's ear like some sort of ghost. Her arm also looks like it's passing under Freddie's arm to underneath the table onto his stomach/hip area (was it THAT sort of party? No wonder John's grinning).

I'd say it's Photoshopped - and the person who owns the original image was the one who did the Photoshopping.

As someone who works with Photoshop on a daily basis, I can say with 99 % certainty that Freddie isn't Photoshopped in. There is a reflection from his left shoulder in the table (right by the reflection from the vase), and a more subtle reflection of, if not Freddie, somebody sitting on the exact same spot. The right arm on Freddies shirt being pushed up by the woman's breast, and the way they overlap each other would be a lot of trouble to go though if it was faked. The bright, warm highlight on Freddie's nose perfectly matches the ones on the woman's and Brians face. His eyes are slightly red from the flash, and so are Brian's.

The list goes on. It's legit. The thing making it look a bit weird is the unfortunate vertical scanning stripe, making his look a bit desaturated compared to the rest of the group.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

As someone who works with Photoshop on a daily basis, I can say with 99 % certainty that Freddie isn't Photoshopped in. There is a reflection from his left shoulder in the table (right by the reflection from the vase), and a more subtle reflection of, if not Freddie, somebody sitting on the exact same spot. The right arm on Freddies shirt being pushed up by the woman's breast, and the way they overlap each other would be a lot of trouble to go though if it was faked. The bright, warm highlight on Freddie's nose perfectly matches the ones on the woman's and Brians face. His eyes are slightly red from the flash, and so are Brian's.

The list goes on. It's legit. The thing making it look a bit weird is the unfortunate vertical scanning stripe, making his look a bit desaturated compared to the rest of the group.
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^ Ding ! Exactly !

Oscar J: I don't have your experience with Photoshop, but I totally agree. As someone who uses it often, maybe you could try and fix the scanning stripe (the easier for me would be to wash the rest of the pic, but with a bit more PS practice than I have, restoring the colours might be possible) so we can see the pic as it should have been in the first place?

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

As someone who works with Photoshop on a daily basis, I can say with 99 % certainty that Freddie isn't Photoshopped in. There is a reflection from his left shoulder in the table (right by the reflection from the vase), and a more subtle reflection of, if not Freddie, somebody sitting on the exact same spot. The right arm on Freddies shirt being pushed up by the woman's breast, and the way they overlap each other would be a lot of trouble to go though if it was faked. The bright, warm highlight on Freddie's nose perfectly matches the ones on the woman's and Brians face. His eyes are slightly red from the flash, and so are Brian's.

The list goes on. It's legit. The thing making it look a bit weird is the unfortunate vertical scanning stripe, making his look a bit desaturated compared to the rest of the group.
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Thanks for your input Oscar - I truly believed it was Photoshopped.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

As someone who works with Photoshop on a daily basis, I can say with 99 % certainty that Freddie isn't Photoshopped in. There is a reflection from his left shoulder in the table (right by the reflection from the vase), and a more subtle reflection of, if not Freddie, somebody sitting on the exact same spot. The right arm on Freddies shirt being pushed up by the woman's breast, and the way they overlap each other would be a lot of trouble to go though if it was faked. The bright, warm highlight on Freddie's nose perfectly matches the ones on the woman's and Brians face. His eyes are slightly red from the flash, and so are Brian's.

The list goes on. It's legit. The thing making it look a bit weird is the unfortunate vertical scanning stripe, making his look a bit desaturated compared to the rest of the group.
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I'm with you. And I work with this beautiful software like every freakin' DAY. lol

hmmm... could it be Freddie's head photoshopped on Roger's body? Take a close look. The head doesn't seem to fit the body.