WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Photoshop

Photoshop is just lame. All it does is take the authenticity out of photos. And that is why somewhere between school and her extracurricular activities, ballet dancer Julia Bluhm found time to launch a crusade against airbrushed images in one of the country's top teen magazines. And this week, she won: Seventeen magazine pledged not to digitally alter body sizes or face shapes of young women featured in its editorial pages, largely in response to the online petition Julia started earlier this year. After hearing too many fellow teens in her ballet class complain about their weight, the 14-year-old started her campaign in April with a petition on Change.org. It called for the magazine to print one unaltered photo spread each month. It's a start, but it could be better. It is possible to go an entire issue without resorting to that Photoshop crap.