National Ad Division Goes After Retouching of Beauty Ads

There have been a bunch of articles lately out there regarding retouching and most of them aimed at the Beauty Industry. I guess they must be an easy target in regards to getting funds to “fight the pixel injustice” but I have to say I think it’s going a bit overboard now, and that concerns […]

Photoshop or Photo Not?

by Sandy Hubbard, Print Futurist For years, newsrooms have had rules about digital alternations. Photo journalists who edited items out of shots — with only the most honorable artistic intentions — were shown the door for misrepresenting reality.   Now, it may be that fashion advertising and celebrity entertainment “news” are heading in a similar direction. […]

British Authority Bans Two Ads by LOréal

This is quite interesting.  Certainly it is understood that there is a fair amount of retouching in Advertising.  I for one oversaw the retouching of a female celebrity of a certain age that had “kill rights” to ANY images of her – and by the time we were done and she had approved it – she had magically […]

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