All Girls' High School Retouches Photos to Make Students Look Thinner

Taking their cues from Vogue and Paper, an all-girls high school retouched ID photos to make sure that their student body was looking fly as hell when flashing their papers for discount movie tickets and ice creams. But not everyone is happy with the extreme measures the school took to make their students look bammin'…
Singer Gets a Major Photoshop Makeover in Music Video
Here's a striking video from Hungarian singer Boggie, in which her moving image is being retouched and "corrected" throughout the entire video. Directed by Nándor Lőrincz and Bálint Nagy, the three-minute video shows Boggie's transformating from a lovely woman in dim lighting to a lovely, flawlessly made-up woman who…
Aerie, American Eagle's lingerie brand, has released its new (and well-timed) ad campaign starring unretouched models. Even better, the brand declares that there will be "no more retouching our girls and no more supermodels." Nicely done.
The Unretouched Images Victoria's Secret Doesn't Want You to See
Back in August, Victoria’s Secret accidentally published a set of two dozen raw, unretouched images from a photo shoot with supermodel Doutzen Kroes. Although we had to take down the unretouched images from our post after some kind of legal crap from VS, we knew the publication of the retouched versions in the brand’s…
Unretouched Photos of Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes Reveal How Much Photoshop Happens [Updated]
Some apparently unretouched photographs from a Victoria's Secret catalog have surfaced online under mysterious circumstances. The shots, featuring VS angel Doutzen Kroes, are stunning — Kroes, of course, looks amazing in all of them. But what's really interesting is what they reveal about Victoria's Secret's Photoshop…
This Middle Aged Man Would Like Girls to Stop Worrying Their Pretty Little Heads About Photo Retouching
In response to recent protests over Seventeen magazine's photo retouching of teenage girls (and the publication's lukewarm capitulation), the Daily Beast ran an editorial by one Jim Warren, former Chicago Tribune managing editor, MSNBC political analyst, and inescapably middle-aged white dude. Warren's point? Well,…
Beauty Brand Casts Ad Campaign Via Blind Questionnaire
Bare Escentuals has its first major ad campaign, and they're touting it as an un-retouched look at real women with natural beauty. They also say they selected the women based on their answers to questions about their lives and not their looks, which is almost true.
Even Classic Pin-Ups Were Retouched
Buzzfeed calls our attention to this gallery of before-and-after images of vintage pin-up ladies — proving women have been retouched in photos, paintings, and advertisements long before Photoshop came into our lives. In this era, artists were "fixing" imperfections on their models with an actual paintbrush.
Models' Real Faces, Before The Photoshop Magic
You are not the only one whose skin isn't always perfect. But you could get that feeling from looking at the magically pore and blemish-free images we're bombarded with on billboards and in magazines. One photographer inadvertently let us in on the process. Watch the miraculous transformation in our video.
Canadian Clothing Retailer Bans Retouching
Jacob, a Canadian clothing store, has pledged to stop retouching models' bodies in ads, though it will even skin tones and erase tattoos digitally. A company rep says they're striving for more realistic ads, but customers still expect "aspirational" images.
Healthy Magazine Makes "Unwell" Model Bigger
A British health magazine decided its April cover model looked "unwell." So they retouched her to look 15-20 kg (33-44 pounds) heavier.
"Okay, That Is Literally My Shape"
Demi Moore is still claiming her W cover wasn't Photoshoppped, and tells Bazaar: "I called the photographers, and they said, 'We did not touch anything on your hip, your thigh, or your waist. It was the position.'" [New York, Earlier]
Retro Photoshop Of Horrors: The Mischa Barton Hand Job Of 2004
Our Photoshop of Horrors Hall Of Shame gallery prompted a reader who once worked for the now-defunct glossy mag Hollywood Life to send us the following message, regarding a 2004 cover and Mischa Barton's hand:
Self Editor Says Photoshopped Covers Capture "Essence Of You At Your Best"
In appearances on the Today Show and Good Morning America, SELF editor Lucy Danziger revealed that she's totally unrepentant about Photoshopping her magazine's Kelly Clarkson cover, and about convincing readers that looking your "personal best" means looking like someone else.
British Lawmakers Take Stand Against Photoshop
In the wake of a disturbingly wrinkle-free Twiggy ad campaign, British Members of Parliament are calling for a ban on Photoshopping ads aimed at children, and disclosure of digital alterations in ads aimed at adults.
