The Winnipeg Free Press seems to have discovered the unbridled fun one can have with that new-fangled computer program called Photoshop.

Apparently, believing the old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words the FP has decided that a doctored photo must be worth at least 500 or 600 more.

So, there in the Saturday paper was Education Minister Peter Bjornson standing around holding stacks of 20-dollar bills, alongside a story about the new tax-incentive grant the province is offering to divisions which freeze taxes.

Just to be ethical, the Free Press put a little disclaimer on the picture in the newspaper, saying it was a "photo illustration." By that, readers are supposed to divine that the picture is a fake. Of course, any photo is an illustration so maybe they're making it all up as they go along.

On its website, the paper offered no disclaimer, just ran the picture as it was invented, leaving folks to believe that the education minister is walking around the province with giant bricks of cash.

We can hardly wait to see the illustration it has in mind for the inquiry into Brian Mulroney's relationship with Karlheinz Schreiber. They could go for a triple play: picture of ex-prime minister, picture of money stacks, picture of wheelbarrow.