I wouldnt be surprised to this Nathan Goulding on some 3-letter agency's payroll as part of the propaganda campaign.
Weak PIO...
Many million people can reproduce this at home with their computer equipment and see that it's absolutely how he describes it.
OK, I'll take a bite at you and your smart aleck tech-savvy attitude. GV, this ones for your honor.
I use Adobe CS4 at work frequently. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, all of that. Thanks to the massive budget my company has, many of us can get licensing for this extremely comprehensive suite of software. Yes yes, it is obvious and established that layers comprise the image and are no longer in the finished saved photo if flattened, preferably after a rasterization to remove any artifacts, dust, etc that may have cropped up from the direct scan onto the digital medium. BUT it is also clear that defects can be seen in alignment, color gradation, and tool usage (blur, contrast adjustment, etc) in the final image. This is where a DFIT/CFU (Digital forensics investigation team/computer forensics unit) can analyze even a flattened, re-copied, re-imaged, re-saved, or re-modified image and blow it up in its entirety to zoom in on the salient features, or even to compare it to a non-modified "best estimate" physical copy run through a scanner simulating the claimed original's methods of digitization.
It was already shown in one other video posted by GV of somebody showing the OCR/color anomaly depicting one side hot/one side cold. I won't delve into detail on it, but what that guy explained is exactly what happens in character scans.
Wake up!