Photoshopping For the Muslim Market – IOTW Report

Photoshopping For the Muslim Market

This image doesn’t phase me in the least. In fact, I’d say, by my experience, this is probably for a more moderate Muslim audience.

As you can see, they photoshopped out the woman.

Back in the day, Irony and I had a gig with a giant book publisher. It wasn’t our normal area of expertise, but we took the job anyway because it was paying a fortune. In fact, Irony learned photoshop on the fly just to do the gig. He dabbled, but sort of lied about being an expert. He became one, though.

What were we doing? Editing American children’s book imagery for the Arab world.

The directives, however, were insane. In fact, the image above would have never flown. I actually did a pool image. I had to remove a dog that was swimming in the pool with the children. (Keep in mind, these were drawings.) The oddest request was to move the children in the water so that no boy or girl was on the same spatial plane if you drew horizontal lines. It’s not that they were touching, but if they moved forward in a straight line, they would, which was an affront to Allah, or something.

There was one book about dancing. I had to switch it all around so no boys and girls were dancing at the same time. Boys danced with boys, girls danced with girls.

Eyes had to be averted in other books, overlapping arms and legs in others. What a culture.

Go to Truth Revolt for the rest

ht/ annie

20 Comments on Photoshopping For the Muslim Market

  1. The fact that they cover the man up too tells us a lot about the sexual proclivities of the moslems. This was the same thing I saw in Saudi Arabia on the front of a kiddie pool for sale in a shopping mall. I don’t remember if the little boy’s torso was blacked out, but everything but the head of the little girl was completely covered over with black magic marker.

    The “Winnie the Pooh” balloon headed kid looks right at home propped up in the corner LOL. I wonder if whoever did the “art work” was making a secretive reference to a honey pot.

  2. Nobody used to care about this cultural nonsense, until they exported their culture to the West. Now it’s a symptom of what is wrong with this culture being imported to the West. It’s a symptom of more important differences between the cultures and religions. On a more serious aside, if a really attractive goat or a comely ewe was in the pool, they couldn’t keep these things in stock.

  3. Haha, I’m a 4th generation lithographer and gave it up to create the interwebz, but I still have ink running through my veins. Miss the smell of the press room and the sounds of presses running. Good times. Now I hack the planet for good. Just doing the lords work.

  4. @Inigo Montoya–I worked in newspaper production for 25+ years. I loved going to the pressroom to see the presses run. Loved knowing that the pages I had built just minutes before were rolling off the presses as a newspaper. I loved the job. I felt like I was working in the belly of the (liberal) beast. I loved laughing at the silly newsroom staff.

  5. A false narrative for a false “religion” based on a false prophet worshipping a false god.
    Baal
    Belial
    Bel
    Moloch
    the dude the Carthaginians burned their children to … what’s his name?
    Obola
    Hanuman
    Marx
    blah, blah, blah …

    izlamo delenda est …

  6. I was told by staff at Disney California Adventure that my young son had to wear a shirt while he was splashing in a play area that has water streams spout up intermittently so the kiddos can cool off. When I asked why, I was told that people from some countries find no shirt on a kid offensive. No prizes guessing which countries they were talking about. I told the “Cast member” (as Disney employees are so pretentiously called) that those people should stay in their own countries if they find such a thing offensive , put my son’s shirt back on and left.

  7. Yeah, that was a gig from the Bizarro World! I was so in over my head at the beginning but figured that nothing made sense in that world anyway. As it turned out, I got paid well to learn a skill.
    Funniest part was BFH calling me and just yelling, “Your phone is gonna ring in 30 seconds – you’re a Photoshop expert, you’re a Photoshop expert!” By the time I said, “Huh?” the other line was ringing and I’d be answering it and claiming to be a Photoshop expert.

  8. @Agatha: This is your anonymous neighbor here by Mt. Rubidoux. Were you and your husband walking your dog on Fourth Street about 7:30PM on Saturday? I always notice dogs. A red dog caught my eye and I wondered if it was you and yours. I was in my car rather than on foot or I would have stopped to say hello.

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