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    Oil firm BP has admitted posting an altered image of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill response centre on its website.

    The picture, posted over the weekend, shows workers in front of a bank of big screens displaying images of its damaged well on the sea floor.

    BP spokesman Scott Dean said that three screens were blank in the original photo and Photoshop software had been used to add images.

    The altered image was replaced with the original after a US blogger spotted it.

    Mr Dean said the photographer who took the photo was displaying his skills with Photoshop software and there was no ill intent.

    "Normally we only use Photoshop for the typical purposes of colour correction and cropping," the Washington Post quoted Mr Dean as saying.

    "We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future."

    Blogger John Aravosis drew attention to the altered image in his Americablog.com.

    He said: "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response centre."

    He pointed out that the altered image contains jagged crops around one of the worker's heads and that the images of the well inserted into the blank screens do not properly fit the space.

    A cap placed on the leaking well last week has stopped oil gushing from it for the first time since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on 20 April caused the disaster.

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    Default Re: BP admits altering oil spill response centre image

    And we still believe what these ppl say?

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    Another Altered BP Photo Raises Eyebrows

    But now, there's another photo being called into question -- this one from a top kill exercise that took place several weeks ago. The image shows several people sitting around a table with a screen in the background (right). But a closeup image (bottom right) indicates that the image on the screen may have been added. Jagged lines around the heads of the two gentlemen sitting in front of the screen hint at a bad cut and paste job.

    Aravosis asks, "How many other crisis response photos from BP have been faked? Did they fake any videos?"

    This information is disheartening to say the least. Certainly it makes people wonder what else BP may be doing in order to gloss up its image. And obviously these images do little to support BP's claim of transparency.

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