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City digitally adds black guy to Fun Guide cover to make it more ‘inclusive’
National Post- Canada ^
| Allison Hanes
Posted on 06/23/2009 10:16:43 AM PDT by Daffynition
The smiling, ethnically diverse family featured on the cover of Toronto's latest edition of its summer Fun Guide was digitally altered to make the photo more "inclusive," which city officials say is in keeping with a policy to reflect diversity.
A spokesman for the department that publishes the guide listing recreation activities confirmed the publication was doctored to insert the face of a different father.
"He superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family cluster in the original photo. It was two photographs and one head was superimposed over the original family photo," said John Gosgnach, communications director for the social development division.
"The goal was to depict the diversity of Toronto and its residents."
The cover shot caught the eye of a National Post graphics editor, who ran it through a program called TinEye that detects visual enhancements to standard art.
The program showed the original image was of a laughing family of indeterminate ethnic background.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: celebratediversity; diversity; fakephotos; fathersday; fauxtography; fraud; getridofthedad; photoshop; poorphotoshop; revisitonisthistory; savethemales; toronto
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To: Daffynition
...this is from the Onion, right? That is a HORRIBLE Photoshop! The lighting doesn’t match, the angle’s wrong, and the guy’s got this “what the heck am I doing in this picture?” look.
Toronto should farm their Photoshopping out to the Iranians. They’d do a better job!
}:-)4
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:18:38 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: Daffynition
OMFG!
The Onion once did this exact same article eight years ago, but they did it as a JOKE.
Amazing.
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:18:42 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Daffynition
I’ve seen the Palestinians do better photoshops than that.
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:19:29 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
To: Daffynition
Geez, I've seen better jobs with Looter Guy.
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:20:01 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Gasoline has gone up 60% since the Osama inauguration.)
To: Daffynition
indeterminate ethnic background But definitely not white - you know THAT was a requirement.
The replacement Photoshop job is technically a disaster to say nothing of pathetically PC.
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:20:48 AM PDT
by
relictele
To: Daffynition
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:21:00 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Daffynition
Could they at least hire somebody who knows how to Photoshop, even I could do a better job just using Microsoft Paint.
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:21:15 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Daffynition
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: VeniVidiVici
Seriously. The Freeper Photoshop contingent could whip up something better than that in about 10 minutes.
}:-)4
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:21:32 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: relictele
They look Mediterranean to me—Italian descent, maybe? Or possibly Hispanic. Not that it really matters.
}:-)4
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:22:36 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: Daffynition
It looks like the same guy Wisconsin used.
To: Daffynition
Notice they put the “LEARN TO SWIM” right under the added black guy, implying he, like many blacks, can’t smim?
THAT’S RACIST!
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:24:36 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: Moose4
It looks like my work! LOL
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:24:41 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: Daffynition
That’s creepy! The guy looks like a child molesterer — look at that evil grin on his face.
“Sure, kids. I’ll teach you how to swim...”
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:24:47 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:24:51 AM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
(The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
To: Daffynition
Hispanic mom, Hispanic kids, grinning black guy thinking he’s won the lottery. Funny.
To: VeniVidiVici
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:26:06 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Daffynition
That is a terrible Photoshop job. I’d be embarrassed to release something like that! It’s so obvious!
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posted on
06/23/2009 10:26:49 AM PDT
by
Sister_T
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