There seems to be something a little odd about this photo.
It looks a little, well, PhotoShopped?
The Syrian Arab News Agency released a news story about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad swearing in the new governor.
If the awkward stare, the distorted floor or the edge detail on his hair smoothed out didn’t give it away, maybe the foot in-front of the table leg will give it away as a PhotoShop.
China has done this, too:
These government officials are inspecting a new highway project.
Apparently the new road uses some kind of new technology that makes you levitate?
Apparently this is done in Turkey, as well.
This is from a new book about Turkmenistan president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
This one is so bad, it might not be PhotoShopped, but “scissored-and-glued.”
Next-up: Egypt’s Al-Ahram.
This shows former-President Hosni Mubarak walking on a red carpet ahead of President Obama and their Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian counterparts during a Middle East peace talks at the White House.
Impressive, right?
Here’s how they were actually walking:
Oh.
Of course, this post wouldn’t be complete without the famous Iranian Photoshop work:
The rockets aren’t actually half bad.
Finally, here’s some PhotoShop work from North Korea:
What do you find in-common with all of these? (Other than poor PhotoShop skills?)
Does this happen in the United States, too? (We just have more advanced PhotoShop users?)
I’m starting to wonder if we really landed on the moon!
[via The Atlantic Wire]
James Cooper says
There’s a big difference between Turkey (democracy on the borders of Europe) and Turkmenistan (dictatorship that was rule by a fruitloop until he died in 2006 – that’s him in the photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov the only book he allowed to be taught in schools was his own autobiography, he introduced a new alphabet and named most national holidays after his own family members…)! Think you might want to change that ‘Turkey’ to ‘Turkmenistan’!
Funny how most (all?) of those come from ‘one party states’ or ones not exactly known for democracy.
Eric Dye says
Spot-on.