> So you know the photos in the magazine are airbrushed, right?

Yeah. But I had no idea the extent of the changes that get made until I saw this site. I was fascinated. The Halle Berry image you linked to was particularly interesting: the retouched version repositions one foot, so that her feet are poised in a more pleasingly symmetrical manner. Poise and pose are important in aesthetics, but I didn't realize the extent that that gets adjusted in the retouch phase.

The other interesting thing about that one is that the furniture got smoothed out, too. It was probably to keep it from distracting from the subject of the photo, but it's more fun to think it was to make the sofa look more glamorous, too.