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Wait Until You See the Photoshopped Image That Appeared on a Chinese Website

May. 24, 2012 9:19am Jonathon M. Seidl

Altering an image — commonly called Photoshopping — is all too common. But some haven’t quite figured out how to make the alterations not be so glaringly obvious. Take this Chinese website for example, which may have just produced one of the most obvious Photoshop jobs we’ve seen.

Business Insider gives the background:

Earlier this month, the local Hangzhou Yuhang’s website wanted to post an image to show local government officials inspecting “Nanhu beach park’s landscape optimization project”, according to China Hush.

A worthy aim perhaps, but inexplicably, the government workers chose to feature a crude Photoshop to illustrate its point.

Here are the two pictures. This is the original:

And now here is the altered version:

If you’re asking yourself Why did they Photoshop the picture? you’re not the only one. It’s pretty mind-boggling. The website has issued an apology, but it makes about as much sense as using the altered picture (translation via Business Insider and China Smack):

May 9th, my company submitted the news manuscript of the “Completion and Transfer of the Green Landscaping Project of Nanhu Beach Park” to the Yuhang District Government Portal Website, along with photographs of technicians on location conducting inspections. Due to unsuitable work processes, there were serious mistakes in the uploaded photograph. With regards to the errors of our work, we deeply express our apologies: We sincerely accept the criticizes of the netizen masses, and wholeheartedly appreciate the concern netizens have given us.

China isn’t the only one, though. You may remember the doctored photo that showed up after the funeral for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il:

The first one is the original, the second is the altered one. See the difference? the group of men hanging out in the back on the left have been removed.

And then there’s another one that’s started to circulate this week form what appears to be a magazine article. Styleite posted it with the title, “Surfer Tragically Loses Arm to Photoshop Shark”:

It’s reportedly from the June issue of Marie Claire.

If you happen to come across other egregious examples, send them our way.

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rickc34
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:30am
Are these the same guys who do work for the DNC?

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- westtitus
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:22pm
  LOL! NOW THAT IS FUNNY! Has to the DNC – Dunce Nation for sure.
  
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- shogun459
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:24pm
  No, these are the ones that didn’t make the ‘cut’! hehe
  
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- Nightstalker
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:45pm
  See the forest not the trees!
  
  Looks like a submarine in the back ground of the original to me!
  I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
  Can’t tell what class it is, but it sure aint a diesel clunker!
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:25pm
  @ Nightstalker Cudos. Didn’t notice.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:31pm
  so chinese people photoshopping something, is a top story? i dont get it. the blaze confuses me.
  
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- goldmankc
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:24pm
  both pics are photoshopped
  
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- black9897
  Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:23am
  Oh brother. This looks like the first time I used Photoshop in high school.
  
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okredstate
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:26am
Didn’t Kim Jong Il shoot like 39 under par the first and only time he played golf? He gave the game up after that saying it offered no challenge.

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basque
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:16am
please save this “Junk news” for the National Enquirer. How does this get on The Blaze?

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- SingerGuy
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Have you read the “About” page here?
  
  “The Blaze is a news, information and opinion site brought to you by a dedicated team of writers, journalists & video producers.
  
  Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family.”
  
  This piece qualifies as “information” in my mind. What’s your problem?
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:14pm
  How do YOU get on TheBlaze?
  
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- MatrixRedPill
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:38pm
  The lesson to learn from this news is that “There is no respect for the Truth” in other parts of the world. If we know that, then we are no longer shocked, over and over again, by “People skirting around man-made laws.” That is what is happening in America now. Once we realize that, then we will know to use God’s Law, Nature’s Law, and teach morality to our young. Or else, we, and our next generations, will be suffering from this human created Hell forever.
  
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- markchristopher
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:05pm
  Ease up there, Singerguy! Everybody is entitled to an opinion here. Have too much coffee this morning?
  
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Strat-M16
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:51am
The shark took her arm … sad, but GOOD NEWS! He left her hand.

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- trinklefinder
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:45pm
  lols
  
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Meyvn
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:39am
Hahah.

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- Meyvn
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:03am
  @ki2cool22: WTF dood?
  
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- LetUsReason
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:25am
  It’s funny, but it’s even more pathetic than funny. The Chinese are notorious for these types of charades. Truth is irrelevant. Image is everything. I don’t blame the Chinese. I don’t even think it’s an Asian thing. In reality, it’s a Communist thing. Remember “the ends justify the means”? That is the Chinese way.
  
  My favorite was when Beijing officials kicked all the homeless out of the city before the 2008 Olympics so people would think the city was a paradise. They spent big $ on pollution alleviation efforts in Beijing, while shamelessly blasting smoke and carcinogens into the atmosphere just outside of town. Even on a clear day in East China, the sunlight struggles to reach the ground. And then, of course, there was the “not-so-cute” Chinese girl that sang during the Olympics….but she sang offstage and had a more visually appealing girl on the stage in front of the crown pretending like she was doing the singing. Watching the Chinese Olympic Committee scramble when this was discovered was rather enjoyable.
  
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- Heb4Seven
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:36am
  @K12COOL22: Isn’t adding links like this kind of like ‘spamming’? It had ‘nothing’ to do with the news article.
  Just sayin’.
  
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- LetUsReason
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:39am
  PS….look at the **** on the guy pointing. It looks so much more angular and in the second picture. :-)
  
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Brandon
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:38am
The guy pointing the finger is in mid-air! lolz

Headline:
“Hovering man gets in confrontation”

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- Rashomon
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:14pm
  “My David Blaine Street Magic kung-fu too powerful for you, standing in hole man!”
  
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piper60
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:31am
I can’t way tho see the pix where they photoshop out Obummer’s ears.

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Wolf
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:01am
Wag the Dog.

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thindime
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:59am
It’ll happen here too. Poor SE Cupp.

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- jzs
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:12am
  One thing they didn’t photoshop in these photo was the sky. It would have been easy enough to make the sky look blue, but they didn’t. Now you’re thinking the photos were taken on an overcast day aren’t you. Actually, no. Coal plant exhaust makes the skies in the eastern, industrial part of the country look gray like that almost 365 days a year. You can be there for weeks and never see the sun.
  
  Now, if that’s what you want for the US, vote Republican.
  
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- Pontiac
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:52am
  1st, the sky is gray because of the camera’s exposure. In order for the people to be exposed correctly you have to over expose the sky.
  2nd, I will vote republican because the alternative isn’t offering a viable solution other than to sit at home and watch your roof rot and cave while waiting for the tooth fairy to pump out free electricity and free electric cars.
  
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- LetUsReason
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:37am
  @ Pontiac and JZS
  
  Sorry Pontiac, but JZS is 100% correct. You do not see blue skies over there like you do in the states. I’ve lived in Nanjing and near Guangzhou and traveled extensively throughout the country. Even a sunny, “blue” day is different than ours. The blue is more grey-blue, and it’s near impossible to get rid of all the haze. It’s a different story if you travel up to Inner Mongolia (beautiful!) or out West, but in the populated east side of China, this is the reality.
  
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- LetUsReason
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:59am
  @ JZS
  
  But actually, he’s wrong about his last sentence. See, Libs think that Conservatives don’t like a clean world just because we won’t buy into their liberal agenda global warming hoax. But we all know what the grounds looked like after Restoring Honor in DC, versus what happens EVERY time the Libs congregate for something. Plus, if you think OWS is going to save the planet, JZS, get a clue!
  
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- Pontiac
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:17pm
  @LetUsReason
  You can look at any number of photos around the world and draw the same false conclusions JZS did simply because the skies are overexposed… Yes their air is dirty, not because of coal, but because of how they burn it. Hell they’ll skin a puppy alive and cook it over a burning pile of tires and little would be done about it. But we’re not dirtying our skys car tire BBQ’s and charred puppy flesh so that puts us way ahead. Environuts are only going after our coal industry because of ~gasp~ CO2.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:41pm
  LetUsReason, thanks for your post. You’ve been there and know the reality.
  
  But, no, I wasn’t talking about global warming. I was talking about pollution. specifically coal plant emmission but other emmissions too, such as from automobiles. The Republicans want to role back government restrictions on those emmissions, allowing more. Sadly, this country has already had smog like that in China in cities such as LA and Denver, smog which is now is now gone thanks to government regulations. But memories are short.
  
  It points up a difference between the left and right. When the US or China place an emphasis on companies making the most money possible, and relax or refuse to enact restrictions on emissions, companies make more money, but citizens of those countries not only inhale those toxic fumes, they also can’t see the sun and blue skies.
  
  Do you want companies to maximize profits or for people to have a better standard of living, including breathing clean air and seeing blue skies?
  
  China, you probably know is working hard to reduce the the toxicity of their air and give their citizens more access to blue skies. The US, it appears, is moving in the opposite direction.
  
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djmaine
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:59am
That Surfing photo is funny. She may have lost an arm but at least both her hands are working.

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BlackCrow
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:58am
Sort of like the George Zimmerman 911 tapes? Trust them as far as I can throw them!

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JustPeachy
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:57am
Beginning to understand more and more how people will be fooled into believing a man (a new world leader) will be shot in the head, pronounced dead, but “raised to life” (sound somewhat familiar?) Only unlike the original, it will be pure scam. The “false Messiah. . .” (“AntiChrist”). Will be so easy to fake it and fool many–just as so many were fooled (and some still are!) into believing Obama is “good.”

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caleejr
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:54am
maybe they’re practicing for birth certificates…..

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SREGN
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:47am
The National Media is just so used to altering reality they can’t help themselves. Much like our own.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:54am
  All too true with our media; now in the case with China, I can see one of two ways – a legitimate mistake and a reeducation camp pending for the offender, or this could be a deliberate ‘goof’ to see what the various world media and sources will make of it. In the latter case, a controlled test in the offering.
  
  Something does not make sense.
  
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Rational Man
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:46am
This is one of those stories that makes me want to tell whoever is responsible for it to, ‘get a life for pete’s sake’!

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Slipstick
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:38am
Why is this news?

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- Fried Okra
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:51am
  Relax SlipStick…
  
  In The Blaze’s “About” page… it states…
  
  “The Blaze is a news, information and opinion site brought to you by a dedicated team of writers, journalists & video producers.
  
  Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family.”
  
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- Meyvn
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:02am
  Not sure you call it news… but it’s damn funny.
  
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- trappedinwv
  Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:33pm
  Look past the obvious WTF of it and realize that the people putting images in front of you are so used to altering what they present that they didn’t notice such obvious things as the the missing arm and floating china men.
  
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Slipstick
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:36am
Not sure why this is news?

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- burnbabylon
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:35pm
  It’s not news, it’s levity.
  
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einfal
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:34am
When U state re: Nkorea pic “the group of men hanging out in the back on the left have been removed.”
I hope just from the photo..

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spfoam1
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:33am
The MSM photoshops images all the time, adding things that are not really there and removing things that are. Pelosi is always seen with a head on her shoulders, and Michelle is always seen without full body ****.

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- smudgercat17
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:47am
  Good one….
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:35am
  That’s her full-body wig.
  
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MrButcher
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:33am
Larry Flynt photoshops better than the ChiComs.

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McNamara
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:31am
I bet that person is in a Chinese prison now.

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huey6367
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:31am
The guys on the left look photoshopped. Pretty bad chop job.

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Baddoggy
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:27am
And our Government just made laws removing any barriers to OUR own propoganda….Thanks US Government…what would we do without you moeons???

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- jhrusky
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:36am
  They had to do that, considering Barry’s alleged birth certificate and selective services card.
  
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- Shooter963
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:49am
  If it wasn’t for Photoshop (even as poorly done as it was) Obama wouldn’t have a ‘certificate of live birth’ to wave in front of the fawning media. Evidently, the $2 million plus, spend hiding his college, immigration, passport, legal and political records was exhausted by the time he realized he also needed a competent forger to generate a birth certificate.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:27am
  @ shooter963
  
  A forger, perhaps, but competent?
  
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Silversmith
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:27am
If they can control something, people inevitably try to change it. This kind of imaging has been going on for some time. Sure, you can definitely see that it has been changed…..today….in this instance. But while we discuss these amateur attempts, – just how good are the best attempts? How much of what we see can we actually trust these days? — or in the near future?

Silversmith

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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:21am
Don’t let the huns get to you, S.E. We love and support you.

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