Even George Clooney gets airbrushed

Raise your hand if you think George Clooney is sexy just the way he is. Those of you with your hands up (you can put them down now) may be surprised, then, to find out that his promotional pics for the upcoming movie Leatherheads were heavily edited. Even the two-time People magazine Sexiest Man Alive can't escape this trend.

I love my digital camera, but this is the side of digital photography that I don't like. When I look at a beautiful photograph, I wonder to myself, "Is that person a brilliant photographer? Or just really good with Photoshop®?" And when I look at a picture of a celebrity in a magazine, I know that -- especially when the person in question is a woman, or a model -- that I'm looking a person who has been airbrushed into fairy tale status.

It's too bad. George Clooney is a fit, handsome, 46-year-old man. Why can't that be enough?