What Cosmetic Surgery or Exercise Can’t Do
July 3, 2008
Wanna be prettier & slender with smooth skin like babe’s? Photoshop can help let you look glamorous, at least, in the photos.
According to Tim Lynch, an image retouching expert, 99.9% of photos published in magazines are retouched. Celebrities even hire professionals to retouch all the photos before being released. Check out the dramatic effects that photo retouching can achieve.
And here is the video made with retouched photos using Photoshop.
Not just celebrities need professional photo retouching, even some scientists also use that for the images published in journals. 
(via Digital Inspiration)
No wonder the cosmetic industry is so strong — people are trying to reach an impossible (computer-enhanced) ideal. Perhaps “truth in advertising” should be applied more stringently!