Wait Until You See the Photoshopped Image That Appeared on a Chinese Website
- Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:19am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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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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Comments (84)
rickc34
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:30amAre these the same guys who do work for the DNC?
Report Post »westtitus
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:22pmLOL! NOW THAT IS FUNNY! Has to the DNC – Dunce Nation for sure.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:24pmNo, these are the ones that didn‘t make the ’cut’! hehe
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:45pmSee the forest not the trees!
Looks like a submarine in the back ground of the original to me!
Report Post »I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Can’t tell what class it is, but it sure aint a diesel clunker!
pavepaws
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:25pm@ Nightstalker Cudos. Didn’t notice.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:31pmso chinese people photoshopping something, is a top story? i dont get it. the blaze confuses me.
Report Post »goldmankc
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:24pmboth pics are photoshopped
Report Post »black9897
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:23amOh brother. This looks like the first time I used Photoshop in high school.
Report Post »okredstate
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:26amDidn’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.
Report Post »basque
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:16amplease save this “Junk news” for the National Enquirer. How does this get on The Blaze?
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:08pmHave 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?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:14pmHow do YOU get on TheBlaze?
Report Post »MatrixRedPill
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:38pmThe 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.
Report Post »markchristopher
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:05pmEase up there, Singerguy! Everybody is entitled to an opinion here. Have too much coffee this morning?
Report Post »Strat-M16
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:51amThe shark took her arm … sad, but GOOD NEWS! He left her hand.
Report Post »trinklefinder
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:45pmlols
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:39amHahah.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:03am@ki2cool22: WTF dood?
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:25amIt’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.
Report Post »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.
Report Post »Just sayin’.
LetUsReason
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:39amPS….look at the hair on the guy pointing. It looks so much more angular and in the second picture. :-)
Report Post »Brandon
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:38amThe guy pointing the finger is in mid-air! lolz
Headline:
Report Post »“Hovering man gets in confrontation”
Rashomon
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:14pm“My David Blaine Street Magic kung-fu too powerful for you, standing in hole man!”
Report Post »piper60
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:31amI can‘t way tho see the pix where they photoshop out Obummer’s ears.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:01amWag the Dog.
Report Post »thindime
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:59amIt’ll happen here too. Poor SE Cupp.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:12amOne 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.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:52am1st, 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.
Report Post »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.
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.
Report Post »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!
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:17pm@LetUsReason
Report Post »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.
jzs
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:41pmLetUsReason, 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.
Report Post »djmaine
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:59amThat Surfing photo is funny. She may have lost an arm but at least both her hands are working.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:58amSort of like the George Zimmerman 911 tapes? Trust them as far as I can throw them!
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:57amBeginning 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.”
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:54ammaybe they’re practicing for birth certificates…..
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:47amThe National Media is just so used to altering reality they can’t help themselves. Much like our own.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:54amAll 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.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:46amThis is one of those stories that makes me want to tell whoever is responsible for it to, ‘get a life for pete’s sake’!
Report Post »Slipstick
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:38amWhy is this news?
Report Post »Fried Okra
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:51amRelax 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.”
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:02amNot sure you call it news… but it’s damn funny.
Report Post »trappedinwv
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:33pmLook 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.
Report Post »Slipstick
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:36amNot sure why this is news?
Report Post »burnbabylon
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:35pmIt’s not news, it’s levity.
Report Post »einfal
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:34amWhen U state re: Nkorea pic “the group of men hanging out in the back on the left have been removed.”
Report Post »I hope just from the photo..
spfoam1
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:33amThe 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 hair.
Report Post »smudgercat17
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:47amGood one….
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:35amThat’s her full-body wig.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:33amLarry Flynt photoshops better than the ChiComs.
Report Post »McNamara
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:31amI bet that person is in a Chinese prison now.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:31amThe guys on the left look photoshopped. Pretty bad chop job.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:27amAnd our Government just made laws removing any barriers to OUR own propoganda….Thanks US Government…what would we do without you moeons???
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:36amThey had to do that, considering Barry’s alleged birth certificate and selective services card.
Report Post »Shooter963
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:49amIf 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.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:27am@ shooter963
A forger, perhaps, but competent?
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:27amIf 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
Report Post »Frodo RinosBane
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:21amDon’t let the huns get to you, S.E. We love and support you.
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