<p>Even though Photoshop fails are ubiquitous, many of us still don't realize quite how much our ads and magazine spreads are manipulated.</p><p>One young women not only found this reality depressing, but also inspiring.</p><p>Anna Hill, a 24-year-old student at East Carolina University, created four images for her final project in an advanced digital photography class showing mock ads for Photoshop itself.</p><p>"I thought it would be fun to poke fun at how much beauty ads are overly manipulated," she told the Huffington Post in an email. "They really are altered so much, they may as well be advertising Photoshop rather than the products they actually sell."</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/photoshop-parody-ads-anna-hill_n_4427839.html?ir=Women">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/12/photoshop-parody-beauty-ads_n_4433198.html">Photoshop Parody Beauty Ads Reveal Just How Much Photos Are Digitally Altered</a> (Huffington Post Canada)</p><p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/12/four-self-portraits-that-will-show-just-how-ridiculous-photoshop-can-be/">Four Self-Portraits of a Woman Confirming Everything You Ever Thought About ...</a> (TheBlaze.com)</p><p><a href="http://www.thegloss.com/2013/12/12/beauty/photoshop-parody-ads/">Photoshop Parody Ads Will Smash Your Perception Of Conventional Beauty</a> (TheGloss)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=deN8sONg6MpC-zM_Xm-Kyr9ZwgOJM&ned=us">7 additional articles.</a></p>
