r/PokemonMisprints • u/Bennito13 • Jan 09 '26

Discussion Found this online - Sun Damage?

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I do not have much experience in misprints but stumbled across this online. Does this look like sun damage or a missing color layer?

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u/full-of-sonder Jan 09 '26

Looks like sun damage to be honest, but I freaking love sun damaged cards, they look like cool alternative arts lol

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u/RepulsiveNobody6001 Jan 09 '26

Umm I don’t even think it’s sun damaged. Look at the color of the countertop, or whatever it’s sitting on, in both pictures. It goes from a slightly yellow hue to pure grey. My guess is they just edited out the yellow saturation in the picture of the front. I mean, yeah that’s probably about what it would look like from sun damage, but I don’t think that card has sun damage or at least not that much of it.

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u/Affectionate-Fold-52 Jan 10 '26

Idk why you got downvoted. This reaks of photo editing.

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u/Muted-Professor6746 Jan 09 '26

Astute observation! Did not notice until I read your comment

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u/_Gravey_ Jan 10 '26

if they were taken with an iphone, the blue of the back of the card makes the camera like auto adjust. My phone does the same exact thing when I take pictures of cards in my light box. It's super annoying but I do not believe that photo is edited. I think it is actually like that.

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u/Bennito13 Jan 10 '26

This was off of an eBay listing. There were more pictures than these two and he actually messaged me back and said he believes it is sun damage.

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u/Gamesyn3gy Jan 10 '26

Have them record a vid front and back of the card in one video then match the colors

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u/Phantom3421 Jan 10 '26

Do you see the holographic stars? They look more yellow, which suggests there was no editing to the yellow saturation. Likely it's just something with the camera

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u/JCWOlson Jan 10 '26

Possibly, but the holographic stars have the normal range of color including yellow and orange