City digitally adds black guy to Fun Guide cover to make it more ‘inclusive’

National Post- Canada ^ | Allison Hanes

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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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[Moose4]

...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!

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[SJSAMPLE]

OMFG!

The Onion once did this exact same article eight years ago, but they did it as a JOKE.

Amazing.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I’ve seen the Palestinians do better photoshops than that.

[VeniVidiVici]

Geez, I've seen better jobs with Looter Guy.

[relictele]

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.

[Vaquero]

[dfwgator]

Could they at least hire somebody who knows how to Photoshop, even I could do a better job just using Microsoft Paint.

[Travis T. OJustice]

[Moose4]

Seriously. The Freeper Photoshop contingent could whip up something better than that in about 10 minutes.

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[Jet Jaguar]

LOL!

[Moose4]

They look Mediterranean to me—Italian descent, maybe? Or possibly Hispanic. Not that it really matters.

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[MediaMole]

It looks like the same guy Wisconsin used.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Notice they put the “LEARN TO SWIM” right under the added black guy, implying he, like many blacks, can’t smim?

THAT’S RACIST!

[Daffynition]

It looks like my work! LOL

[DieHard the Hunter]

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...”

[Dumpster Baby]

The lefties like to alter reality to suit their purposes.

[snarks_when_bored]

Hispanic mom, Hispanic kids, grinning black guy thinking he’s won the lottery. Funny.

[sheik yerbouty]

“Hooray beer!”

[Sister_T]

That is a terrible Photoshop job. I’d be embarrassed to release something like that! It’s so obvious!