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NEWS ABOUT: digital retouching

digital retouching stories: 5 news summaries
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 Even Babies Are Airbrushed 

Babies subject to the tyranny of Photoshop, too

Nov 16, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Even babies can't meet the media-industrial complex's exacting standards: Baby photos are airbrushed before making their way to magazines, to tweak skin tone, swap eye color, and airbrush fat lines and creases, reports the Daily Telegraph . While many are riled, to some, this is not news: "You kind... More »

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baby • Photoshop • digital retouching • babies • airbrush

OPINION

 For That Photoshopped Look: 
 Airbrush Yourself at Home 

Effect of digital retouching on real women's body issues is now creepily tangible

Sep 30, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - As if the fake beauty of those Photoshopped magazine covers wasn’t enough, enter Temptu, a home “airbrush system” that can give anyone that flat, plastic look in the flesh. Chloe Angyal is appalled. One really needs to focus in order “to think about just how incredibly screwed... More »

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women • Photoshop • cosmetics • body image • digital retouching • makeup • magazine cover • airbrush

Airbrushed Pics May Get French Health Warning

Lawmakers look to require label on digitally altered photos

Sep 22, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the uproar over fashion photos whose models are airbrushed to teeny-tiny perfection, French politicians are proposing a law that would require any such photos to include a health warning, Reuters reports. Digitally altered ads, press photos, campaign art, packaging, and art photography would have to include “Photograph retouched... More »

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fashion • France • photography • model • photograph • digital retouching • Jay-ZTV

analysis

 Has Airbrushing
 Gone Too Far? 

Digital Barbie-fication of women called unhealthy trend

May 3, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shutterbugs have long altered pics, but now critics are cringing over the effects of airbrushing on young girls. French lawmakers have even approved a law against inciting "excessive thinness." But would such a move work in America? Maybe not, "but there are a whole lot of impressionable... More »

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women • beauty • photography • eating disorder • photo editing • digital retouching • magazine industry • altered photos

'Perfect' School Photos, But at What Cost?

Digital retouching for young kids may warp developing body image

Feb 22, 08 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Popular and inexpensive digital retouching of school photos has some parents concerned about the effects on kids’ sense of body image, Newsweek reports. Clients for retouching services—powdering complexions, whitening teeth, reshaping eyebrows and so forth—are getting younger and younger, creating, one historian says, "a culture of kids... More »

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children • photography • body image • digital retouching • school pictures • childhood

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