DPWH Photoshop Fail

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DPWH under fire for Facebook 'photoshopping'
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) caught the ire of social media and blogs Thursday for allegedly poorly fabricating a photo uploaded on its Facebook page.

The image, allegedly altered through popular editing program Photoshop, showed DPWH Undersecretary Romeo Momo with Metro Manila Regional Director Reynaldo Tagudando and South Manila District Engineer Mikunug Macud talking, with the damaged Manila Bay seawall in the background.

The 3 officials seem to be floating on air in the fabricated photo.

Pierre Albert San Diego, a civil engineer, pointed out the discrepancies in his blog, Controlled Chaos.

"I re-checked the image and concluded that DPWH fabricated this picture. Why they had to edit it and not just simply compose a photo with all three guys, I do not know," he said. "Although my evil mind tells me that the DPWH wants a pogi photo showing their bosses in deep thought while assessing the disaster site, and they didn’t have the opportunity to pose because those guys were probably there for 15 minutes max – so they just lasso tooled the hell out of that pic."

"Some say this is a very minor issue, but I see this is as a nice sample of DPWH’s lack of integrity. If they can fabricate simple things like this, just imagine what these guys can do to progress billings and acceptance of projects," San Diego added. "Also, while relatively mild, isn’t this a classic example of 'Utak Wangwang?' While unethical and unnecessary, they thought they could get away with fabricating photos so they tried to."

The DPWH Central Office's Facebook administrators have deleted the fabricated photo and uploaded new images, presumably unaltered.

However, the department continued to receive flak on the social media site because of the Photoshop faux pas.

"Nakakahiya kayo! Nagphophotoshop pa ng litrato na peke," said Arthur Espiritu.

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[TwoStepsFromHeLL]

murag nindot ni ilisan ang 3 sa picture. calling for pres pnoy..

[noel_llapa]

calm down lang mga bros...

basta photo gani para release sa media...usually i photo edit man gyud na.
ang nakadaot lang kung di maayo pagka edit... you can check all the photos n TIME, NEWSWEEK, og sa mga daily papers, thery're usually edited.. .usahay lang gyud, palpak lang pagka edit..unya awkward ang resulta....naa gyud sad daghan mga fail photos nila..

Mu-edit bitaw nang mga major newspapers and magazines, but im pretty sure na ang editing done is limited to retouching, airbrushing, ug color correction para munindot lang tan-awun ang mga dagway sa mga starring sa photo. Dili pareho ani na gi TELEPORT jud ang mga tinuhak sa laing lugar. Unya na ila pa jud gi-deny na naay photoshopped ang picture unya "genuine" daw tung ilang palpak na pic. tsk tsk. No excuse ni, ifootball jud.

[kiybordwaryur]

mao diay ni uso ron.

aysus... mga KSP jud ni sila..
gaya-gaya.. kahuman di man diay angkunon..


tinuyo man diay tapos i deny!
or maybe ang IT dept. mao nag trip2x sa ila officials..
kakuha idea sa china!


Congrats pinoys.. kamao na pod ta ug reverse engineering!

[iLuvEmoSoMuch]

aguy oi. naunsa naman ni hahaha

[mackiechoy]

Regarding retouching sa media, most specifically the Philippine Daily Inquirer, I asked their chief photographer, Ernie Sarmiento, on a canon seminar about post processing and he said the only pp they do is cropping and brightness and contrast...

[lost-realist]

louya sa IT sa DPWH sure ko g taktak na sa trabaho... wew... pwede pud gi kasaba cake na2 ron... tungod g dali2x og edit sa photoshop... hehehe....

[balipseyev]

In ana man tong nahitabo sa china sauna, 3 gihapon ka tao na gi photshop ang ilahang report...

All 3 died of 9mm induced coma... Gi kopya pud diay sa DPWH ang style sa china, tana kopyahon sad ang 9mm induced Coma...

[peewee_toot]

^^hahaha. nindot nga idea. uyon kaayo ko ana!

[TwoStepsFromHeLL]

ekick ball ng 3 ka taw oi. hahaha