Photoshopped images, before and after
This is a photoshopped photo that was very widely distributed through email (at least I think it's widely distributed because even I received it). The text of the email claimed that a camera was found in the ruins of the Twin Towers, and the film was developed, and this picture came out. Common sense says that it is impossible for something like this to have happened, but I think it looks believable enough to fool people.
This photo is of an ad for an anti-cellulite lotion. I saw this ad in Greece and was very freaked-out by it. Regardless of its freak-factor (or perhaps because of it), it illustrates how photoshop can be used to manipulate images and get across a simple idea, a visual statement, in a very realistic way.
Here are examples of using photoshop to change the female figure for the better
and for the worse
The intentions in this one were probably to criticize models, but it is backfiring -- I am only inclined to criticize the person who would spend time manipulating this image (and other similar ones) and not the models. This also makes me question all of the celebrity-obsessed publications (not that I haven't questioned them before -- it's just never really occured to me to doubt the authenticity of the photos they print until now).