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With ever-more sophisticated software, media photograph touchups are now commonplace and widely accepted.
But should it be so extreme? Some would argue that airbrushing images for the beauty industry's version of perfection grossly distorts our ideas of beauty, creating a false benchmark that's utterly unattainable.
At the very least, when you see the extent to which photos can be digitally altered, you'll view future images with a healthy dose of skepticism. We've found nine YouTube videos that take you through the Photoshop transformation process.
Take a look through our video gallery for some stunning transformation sequences. In the gallery below, take a peek at 15 dramatically Photoshopped "before and after" celebrity photographs.