On the Ethics of Photoshop Tutorials

Although we liked it better when the food section was saved for (pre-crossword) dessert, we give two thumbs up to the recently redesigned—and trimmed down—New York Times Magazine, which this past Sunday wowed us with a radiation-soaked drop capital that zapped readers into Jack Hitt‘s fascinating story of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic‘s stint as an incognito new age guru (don’t miss the wonderfully loopy photos by Lars Tunbjork that accompanied the piece). Also catching our eye was Ethicist Randy Cohen‘s response to a high school graphic design teacher who wondered if he should dock points from students who followed an online tutorial to complete a Photoshop assignment —even though the teacher had previously OK’ed the use of such tutorials.

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