What can politicians do when they are addressing a political rally and there aren’t enough people in the audience?
When the chief minister of an Indian state ran into a similar problem, his press department hired some Adobe Photoshop expert to create fake crowds with the Clone tool in Photoshop.
Enlarge the photograph above and observe circles that have the same color. via
Related: Journalists take Photoshop lessons, Reuters Images
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Reader Comments
lol, thats bad luck :)
Written by Vignesh on 11.08.07
ha ha amusing! but that hardly matters, videos on tv cant fake crowds… the newspapers yeah do have some benefit with this trick.. but still nothing works like booze and money when collating rural citizens
Written by sindhu on 11.09.07
Good one, this should goto Tehelka..:)
Written by Saurabh Mittal on 11.09.07
Also notice in the bottom right of the image, there is a solid vertical line where the podium is, the lighting on the minister is coming from another direction. He isn’t even there! :p The crowd isn’t even looking at him!
The clones are probably to cover up billboards that would give this point away :p
Written by Bobob on 11.13.07
Lol, they are taking lessons from George Bush’s PR team.
Written by Ed on 11.13.07
With 400mn poor population of India , Indian politicians will never need technology to fake crowds. They anyway do it by paying the crowd for attendance and transport them from one place to another.These poor get food to eat and some liquor. ladies get sarees. The fags they carry for the meeting become their childreen’s dress or as sheets to cover themselves during cold weather. “HAMARA BHARAT MAHAN”.
Written by ramamurthy on 11.14.07
Ramamurthy, “The fags the carry for the meeting”
Bwuahahahaha, then they skin them and become their dresses? I though people in the south were harsh to people with a gay lifestyle.
Written by Absolute Vengeance on 11.14.07
of course this news is fake….. someone probably photoshopped this image for fun and these mediawhores posted it creating a fake news and stupid stuff
Written by Nitin on 11.19.07