photoshop

Those who can claim mastery over Photoshop have a lot more skills than most of us might think. They can make celebrities and models look way better than they actually are, and they even have the ability to create people out of blank canvases, literally. Click after the jump and watch how a simple sketch in Photoshop slowly becomes a real-looking woman.

The American Medical Association is taking a stand against Photoshop. For decades, photo manipulation software has been whittling the waists and thinning the thighs of celebrities and models, and the AMA says it’s caused unrealistic and unhealthy body image issues — especially among children and adolescents.

Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, is raising eyebrows with her new cover story, “Diana at 50.” In it, Brown envisions what Princess Diana’s life would be like now, had she not perished in a car crash in 1997. Yes, she probably would’ve used Twitter, and yes, she likely would’ve become a defender of her son William’s commoner bride, Kate Middleton. But somewhere along the way, Brown veers into fantas