Unfortunately the paedo used a default swirl filter so it was pretty easy to unswirl. Hiddy's pic uses a liquify filter which is a freehand distortion. Gotta see something soon . . . Fingers are crossed!
You sure it was easy, try swirling, and then swirling in the opposite direction and see what it looks like... the guy I was talking about is half way down in this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7384834.stm I thought this swirl was bigger news, although I do read 4chan and b3ta...
My bad . . . I was talking in relative terms compared to a randomly drawn freehand effect with no fixed perameters.