Photoshop-infamous blunders in politics

Russia has much to be proud: our politicians are as artfully using "Photoshop" for PR as officials such advanced countries as North Korea and China.

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Kuban officials posted recently on the website administration Labinsk district of Krasnodar region with the inauguration of a photo collage Rural final games of the Kuban. In the picture a group of officials led by Vice - Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Nikolai Doluda, walks on the background of the stadium. With regard to officials launched an investigation into the "truancy" event, as the press service of the regional administration hastened to declare that the appearance of collage on the site was a technical error: that the photographer has mixed original photo with the technical layout, which "was made to combine panoramic shoot the stadium and the officials who were present at the event ».



Source: Administration of Labinsk area

Who took the lesson "photoshop»

The Chinese. In this picture of 2011, posted on the government website County Huili County of Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the mayor Lihong Li Ning (Li Ningyi) surrounded by two other local officials inspect the quality of the highway linking the countryside to the city. And inspect, without touching the ground.



Source: County Huili County Administration

But miracles bureaucratic Photoshop from another Chinese city. In the photo officials Hangzhou city stroll in the park after the completion of its renovation.



Source: The district administration of Hangzhou Yuhai

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12 the most infamous error to use Photoshop

Photoshop magically "shows" the terrible secrets of others. Especially - the mysteries of political opponents. In early January, activists in blue vests with the words "for Putin" were given to residents of Yekaterinburg tens of thousands of copies of the newspaper "Arguments and Facts Ural", decorated with a photograph of a smiling opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Photo was intended to reinforce the conclusions of the article claimed that sponsored the bulk of London. Photo Photoshop proved inept. In the original photo, which Navalny posted in his LiveJournal blog, opposition posing next to another Russian oligarch, this time not disgraced, Mikhail Prokhorov.



Source: LJ Navalny

Publication Lifenews, known for its pro-government orientation, published photos Duma deputy and the head of staff of the "Fair Russia" Oleg Mikheev cap in Nazi costume at a wedding party member. Bloggers have found evidence that the Nazi eagle on the cap Mikheyev - a product of photoshop. They found on servers Lifenews original photo.



Source: LJ dmitry-noskoff

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It is our know-how.

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In August 2010, the United Russia party put out fires ... Photoshop. The site "United Russia" there was a picture of a conflagration in the Voronezh region with obviously created in smoke.



Source: website of the party "United Russia»

Who took the lesson "photoshop»

North Korea. North Korea's state news agency the Associated Press photo of flooding in Pyongyang, which is somewhat exaggerated the tragic consequences of the disaster. At least, AP to stop using this photograph, saying that she was "subjected to digital processing." Why do it? It is believed that the North Korean authorities were counting on additional financial aid from the West.



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In early April, has not yet subsided passion with respect to the photograph of the missing hours of Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Internet users have started to actively look for (well, except for the missing hours, of course) other photo bloopers officials. And they found magically rejuvenated a decade Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev. At the top of it in the picture, placed the administration of the Kemerovo region during the personal reception of citizens in October 2011. A freeze-frame at the bottom of the plot program "Vesti-Kuzbass". As they say, feel the difference.



Source: LJ potsreotizm

Who took the lesson "photoshop»

The West. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his time made a "liposuction" in the photo published in belonging to his friend, the oligarch magazine Paris Match. Original photos shot Reuters journalists while relaxing in the Sarkozy Volfboro, USA.



Source: The Telegraph

But the charming Canadian parliament deputy Ratike Sitsabayesan (Rathika Sitsabaiesan) on the official website of the legislature to retouch ... her cleavage, considering the 29-year-old deputy overly sexual.



Source: The Daily Mail

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