[jerich]

I don't know about his other claims, but this one seemed a little suspicious: "Next I gave him a face by mashing up three portraits from Google images using a free trial copy of Adobe’s “Lightroom” image manipulation software."

As a user of Lightroom since version 1 in 2007, and spending many hundreds of hours using it as my main image-editing program on 40,000+ images since then, it would be my last choice of imaging software to "mash[] up three portraits"

I'm not sure if it's even possible to combine multiple images in Lightroom; it's more for making global adjustments to single images. There might be a way to do it using a third-party plugin, but most Lightroom functions work on the whole image (adjusting exposure, white balance, etc). There are some cloning and healing tools, but as far as I know, there's no way to clone a nose out of one portrait and paste it into another.

Even if it's possible, it's not something that a first-time user would be able to do in the author's two hour window on April 14th after downloading the free trial, especially given all his other activities.

Maybe the author is just trying to CYA for using someone's picture he found online, but if that part is clearly exaggerated, maybe he's just trying to become "internet famous" by making up a made-up "internet famous" alter-ego, or something more meta- like that.