In what can be seen as the latest discomfiture for the oil-leak-plagued BP, a site called Americablog has noticed that a supposedly July 16-taken picture of the oil giant’s Houston command center has been altered to include more on-screen camera action.

Noting that the photo, which has clearly been ‘Photoshopped’ badly, is displayed prominently on BP’s website, Americablog elaborated that BP had evidently cut and pasted three underwater images into a wall of video feeds from remotely operated undersea vehicles.

The flaws in the poorly-Photoshopped picture come to the fore in an enlarged version of the image – with one of the 10 images apparently sticking down into the head of a people sitting in front of the wall, and another piece of the image being separated from the other side of the head by uneven white space. The same image’s right side also hangs down below the area on which the video feeds have been projected.

Pointing out the alterations on his Americablog. com on Monday evening, John Aravosis remarked: “I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center.”

With the word about the altered image spreading around, the story was highlighted by the Washington Post; from where it was subsequently spotted by the tech blogs like Gizmodo and others.

Meanwhile, confessing that the images were fake, a BP spokesman said in an e-mail to the Washington Post: “We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future.”