Brian at mediabistro.com: TVNewser has a post about CBS’s apparent touchup of Katie Couric’s official “first-pic”. With all of the money they have to spend, this is the best they could do? It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. They actually improved the overall color of the shot, but they darkened the dress way too much. I sure that her apparent loss of about twenty pounds was purely a coincidence, just an accidental side effect of the color adjustment.

Allahpundit is on the case as well.
Hot Air – Fauxtography: The incredible disappearing Katie

She’s on the Adnan Hajj diet. Try it and watch the pounds melt away from your waist and neck.

The really good part is the e-mail he received after posting:

Be careful shouting “Wolf!” because Katie Couric’s true picture is likely the thin one – the fattening on the other is likely an anamorphic (uniform single direction) expansion ordinary page layout programs do to fill the picture frame on a page. It’s the sign of an amateur, not evil.

BS, BS, and more BS. What this commenter needs need to look at in the photos is what changed and what didn’t. They narrowed her neck and the necklace, but left the cleavage line stayed the same. The points of her shoulders are almost exactly the same, but her elbows much narrower. Her waist has been narrowed, and the space between her arms and body has been expanded. Most significantly to me, her smile, her hands, and the envelope remain unchanged. The photo was definitely manipulated, and not just to improve the color.