Article: Do looks deceive with Photoshop?(News)

BYLINE: Jeannine Stein

Los Angeles: Kim Kardashian has practically made a living off her curvaceous figure. But the reality TV star was looking a little less shapely in Complex magazine in April, her body reduced about a dress size, her legs smoothed to near-perfection.

How did readers know? Complex accidentally posted a pre-Photoshopped image of Kardashian on its website - before her thighs, arms and waist had been digitally sculpted. In a matter of hours, the photo was gone. But in that time, those who spotted it got a reminder that we should think twice about taking photographs at face value.

"My belief," says Scott Kelby, president of the ...

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