The most outrageous Photoshop fails ever

People know these days that every image of a model or a celebrity has been doctored in some way or other – to remove blemishes, wrinkles, excess flab etc. The effects of this on the way we see ourselves is much debated and analysed, but we think there are more pernicious examples of the misuse of photoshopping – in the doctoring of reality for political purposes. For example, this post was inspired by BP’s admission that it changed an image of a command centre overseeing the team tackling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The doctoring of the image was to make staff look busier.