Freak Week

Photoshop shenanigans can come back to haunt you, and it’s done just that to Microsoft, which suffered a PR embarrassment last week when it became clear the company had digitally erased a black man from a photo in an overseas version of one of its business-to-business Web sites. The man appeared in the English-language version of Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure site, but was replaced by a white man in the Polish-language version. Only a small portion of the black man remained — they forgot to Photoshop out his hand.