Still looks photoshopped to me. It would be more socially responsible if it were a fake picture. It would be easy to photoshop a "peeling" edge, as well. Not that I don't believe that someone could take a picture of the tree, print it on a label, and stick it on a sign. Just that it would be a lot easier to fake the picture, and then pretend that you were defacing public property. All in all, an unusual idea, but kind of limited in scope. He should have made a transparent plexiglass sign with the same info as the original sign, and then replaced it. That way, it would work from a lot wider angle.
It would be more socially responsible if it were a fake picture.
It would be easy to photoshop a "peeling" edge, as well. Not that I don't believe that someone could take a picture of the tree, print it on a label, and stick it on a sign. Just that it would be a lot easier to fake the picture, and then pretend that you were defacing public property.
All in all, an unusual idea, but kind of limited in scope. He should have made a transparent plexiglass sign with the same info as the original sign, and then replaced it. That way, it would work from a lot wider angle.
You could do it easily with layers.