More insanity from BP

Fast Company reports that BP has now taken to photoshopping photos of its response command centers to make them look busier. In other words, they're adding in more people, more monitors, etc. Well, as with all of the shady shit that BP has tried to pull since the spill, they got busted.

From Fast Company:

On BP's "Response in pictures" site, one photo, purported to be taken on July 16, 2010, sat for days, unquestioned. The photo shows BP's Houston Command Center, a desk with some massive monitors, lots of complicated things happening on them, and employees monitoring the situation in the Gulf. But all is not as it seems.

Yesterday, AmericaBlog took a good, hard look at the photo--but in retrospect, a mediocre, slightly firm look would have sufficed. The photo was altered in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (last year's model, it should be noted). That's bad enough--the last thing BP needs is to cover up anything they're doing right now--but what really stings is how insanely incompetent the editing was. It's insulting to anyone who's played around with Photoshop: any 15-year-old DeviantArt user could have done this job without detectable artifacts, and BP's "professional photographers" did a ridiculously amateur job.