I realize this sounds pissy and irredeemably minor, but I’m kind of irked by obviously Photoshopped images, both on film posters and in other matters of promotion. I know the practice isn’t at all uncommon; the forthcoming Underdog kids movie features a deftly manipulated poster, and I was sent an eye-gougingly bad wall calendar replete with more of the same. I even (knowingly) used a studio-doctored picture in a review of Click, an image in which Kate Beckinsale was stuffed into frame alongside Adam Sandler, giving her character the momentary appearance of having something to do in the movie.

The most recent Photoshop job comes courtesy of Evan Almighty‘s press kit (above), which, in its corner, crams in a view of its Washington, D.C. setting that is not quite wholly impossible, but doesn’t jibe with the movie’s third act. I’ll get into this more in the coming days, but it says a lot — in its own subtle, sad way — that the studio feels not one, not two, but three images are needed to reinforce the setting to… whom, exactly? Professional writers and reviewers? (I don’t believe this image appears in posters for the movie as well, but maybe it does.) So we get Congress, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial… what, the Jefferson Memorial couldn’t be worked in as well? I guess I have to bite my tongue and give proper credit, though — at least they didn’t reverse the image of the Lincoln Memorial, and have it facing the wrong way.