Until I noticed something about the testimonial.
It's Photoshopped
((https://i.imgur.com/IVb34GB.png))
That's a serious red flag when testimonials include images that are clearly cut out of a larger image....
Hiya.
Sorry I am missing your point here, surely if someone supplies you an image and you want to fit it in to your own web page design, sometimes you might have to do things with it, like resizing or cropping.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own thoughts or opinions, so I have said mine and you have yours.
It wasn't cropped or resized. It's clearly been cut out from another image, probably using something similar to the Magnetic Lasso, and then placed on a fake background.
If they just needed to resize the image to fit a predefined image container. They wouldn't need to cut out the person's face, and plop it onto a pre-sized background.
...it's a red flag. Why, assuming their company is legit, would they even risk altering any photo of any person beyond resizing, and maybe some minor touch up to remove blemishes. To do so, just screams "Fly by night operation".
If you are that suspicious, you could I suppose email the person in the picture, if you click on the mail icon, you can mail them personally and ask them their thoughts?
-_-'
The person's photo did not originally appear on that background...the background that makes a square image. If you look at the photos from the operators, you can clearly see that their face/body was taken with the shown background being in the original shot....all of them are square shots as well.
Simple use of CSS creates the round cut out that hides the rest of the square image.
I really don't understand how anyone can look at that guy's alleged photo and say "yep, that's legit".
The hair around the ear doesn't looks right. He likely had long hair that was swept back behind the ear.
The overall hair is wrong. Unless you're suggesting his hair is made of plastic; no stray groups of hair...hell even Conan O'Brien has tufts of hair that give the top of his hairline an uneven look.
The photo of the man is also lower quality than the background.
The left shoulder is uneven. Those "waves" are explicitly created when cutting an image out and having some of the "cut at" spill into the image you want to cut out.
lol, email them. Ya, let me email a person, who's photo has clearly been manipulated beyond simple resizing. I'm sure they'll be who they say they are.