A metadata skilled questioned as a rebuttal witness within the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard defamation trial testified that he analyzed a number of of Heard's pictures that present alleged proof of bruising and claimed that he had no means of authenticating them.

Norbert "Bryan" Neumeister introduced in a number of demonstratives that confirmed the analytics of a number of pictures that Heard submitted displaying bruising on her arms or face.

By way of Exif knowledge analytics, a number of the pictures, Neumeister defined, confirmed that the software program for the file was not from an iPhone, however that it was rendered in an modifying program, as Regulation & Crime Community shared on Twitter.

One photograph confirmed a bruise on Heard's arm, and Neumeister mentioned that every one three information "do not match forensically" and all "needed to undergo some sort of transformation to vary sizes."

In giving his opinion on the matter of the pictures, Neumeister testified that there was "no means for any forensic skilled to validate these pictures," and mentioned that he believed a number of pictures had been modified.

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An skilled testified on Wednesday that a few of Amber Heard's pictures displaying alleged bruising had been put by way of modifying applications or modified. On this photograph, actor Amber Heard arrives into the courtroom on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Could 16, 2022. STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs

This isn't the primary time Heard has been accused of modifying pictures in courtroom. Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, accused Heard of modifying her harm pictures in cross-examination final week.

When two footage had been introduced aspect by aspect to the courtroom, Heard claimed they had been two individually taken pictures with completely different lighting. "The sunshine is on in each of those footage although," Vasquez argued. Heard responded by saying one of many lights is a "vainness gentle."

"Is not it true you simply edited these pictures?" Vasquez mentioned to Heard. "And also you simply enhanced the saturation from considered one of these pictures to make your face look extra crimson."

Individuals on social media tried to additionally level out that the pictures had been edited. One person on Twitter, @David_Horsemann, overlaid the pictures on high of each other to point out the completely different coloring.

"Amber Heard edited her pictures so her face would look crimson," @David_Horsemann wrote.

Part of her testimony additionally went viral when she referred to as a make-up palette her "bruise equipment," earlier than shortly correcting herself. As a part of her emotional testimony recalling completely different incidents through which she was allegedly crushed by Depp throughout their relationship, she mentioned the make-up palette she used to cowl up bruises.

"That is what I used to be speaking about as a shade correction equipment," Heard mentioned, holding up the palette on Could 17. "This isn't, clearly, the precise one I used to hold, however I used to hold it with me on a regular basis."

She defined, "After which if you wish to cowl up a bruise, you clearly put basis first, concealer after which on high of that I take advantage of like a bruise equipment," earlier than shortly correcting herself. "Not a bruise equipment, it is a theater make-up equipment."

TikTok customers mentioned Heard's "bruise equipment" remark when the video went viral, with one writing, "A 'bruise equipment' for theater/appearing would indicate it is for making bruises not masking them up."

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for defamation after she wrote an op-ed in 2018 claiming to be a sufferer of home violence. Depp and Heard have every denied the opposite's allegations of home abuse.

The trial is coming to an in depth on Friday. For extra updates, verify Newsweek'sstay weblog.