Photography in the News

Any Photoshop-related items in today's U.K. news? Yes, and as always it is the photo retouchers who are to blame... or credit.

Now fashion mags make models 'fatter'

Another agency, the iWanex Studio, boasts a portfolio of "before and after" images of celebrities that it has retouched for magazines. In one of the "after" photographs, the thighs of Cameron Diaz, the actress, have been visibly widened, her arms filled out and her stomach made smoother and rounder, with her prominent hip bones from the "before" photograph erased.

Shopped

I'm teaching a unit on retouching in Photoshop, so I've been giving my students "before" pictures. I decided I would try one myself, so I grabbed a celebrity mugshot, and started a timer.

Above: twenty minutes later. I think more could be done with the hair, but I ran out of time.