Tuesday, July 20, 2010

BP sucks at Photoshop



Blogger John Aravosis of Americablog News discovered that British Petroleum's main site on Monday looked and little funky and that the company can't even unethically manipulate a photo properly:

I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center. Why do they need a fake photo at all? Don't they have a real crisis response center they could have used?
The Washington Post reports that, "Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP, said that there was nothing sinister in the photo alteration and provided the original unaltered version. He said that a photographer working for the company had inserted the three images in spots where the video screens were blank."

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Here's a zoom of the professional job.



That's what happens when you have a company run by Smurfs. Seriously.

I hope they're better at oil drilling than at Photoshop. Oh, wait...