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Magazine Retouching

Glamour Magazine Embraces Perfect Imperfection

Megan Rosker | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Read More: Glamour Retouching, Image Retouching, Digital Diets, Retouching Photos, Glamour Image Retouching, Photoshop, Magazine Retouching, Photoshopping, Style News
Megan Rosker

Cynthia Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour, has decided to take a stand against the impingement of obsessive retouching in the world of beauty. Her magazine has pledged that it won't be putting models on a digital diet.

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When it Comes to Retouching Photos, How Much Is Too Much?

The Huffington Post | Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 02.09.2012 | Women
Read More: Air Brushing, Photoshop, Profile Pictures, Video, Online Dating Photos, Facebook Photos, Victoria's Secret Photoshop Fail, Magazine Retouching, Retouching, Facebook, Women News

You may do it without thinking. You select a warm filter from Instagram for that photo of you and your friends, or you hit the "retouch" button in iPh...

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Defining Beauty

Katherine Schwarzenegger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Women's Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Girls Body Image, Magazine Retouching, Photoshopping, Body Image, Los Angeles News
Katherine Schwarzenegger

In today's society, it seems like everyone is on the move to be at their most perfect, but what for? So you can look like the woman you saw on a billboard?

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Reach Out and Retouch Someone: Why Digital Tweaking Isn't Such a Dirty Business

Napoleon Perdis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Retouching, Digital Retouching, Beauty, Magazine Retouching, Photo Retouching, Napoleon Perdis, Airbrushing, Style News
Napoleon Perdis

We've all become amateur retouchers, at home laboring over personal photos to remove red eyes, delete blemishes and improve the overall appearance of our skin. So when did retouching become such an abominable practice?

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W Korea Takes My Side, Fixes Demi's

Anthony Citrano | Posted 06.18.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Demi Moore Photoshop, Demi Moore, Martin Singer, Demi Moore W Magazine, Magazine Retouching, W Magazine, Photography, Fashion Photography, W Korea, Entertainment News
Anthony Citrano

The January 2010 issue of W Korea just hit the newsstands. Surprisingly, they installed a new hip on Demi Moore, meaning that even W's sister publication thought the image looked weird enough to fix.

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The SELF You Never Were

Joyce McFadden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: The Today Show, The New Yorker, Photo Retouching, Health, Sexism, Christy Turlington, Fashion, Kelly Clarkson, Airbrushing, Lauren Collins, Feminism, Self Magazine, Lucy Danziger, Photography, Magazine Retouching, Photo-Retouching, Emme, Photoshop, Media News
Joyce McFadden

SELF takes the focus off her talent by making us focus on what they see as the money shot... a version of Clarkson that doesn't exist.

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Self Editor Defends Photoshop Retouching

Self |   |  Posted by Selfeditor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Photoshop, Magazine Retouching, Lucy Danziger, Self Magazine, Airbrushing, Media News

Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? w...

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Criminalizing Retouching

Eli Neugeboren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Photoshop, Magazine Touch Up, Magazine Retouching, Retouching, Photoshopping, Magazines, Airbrushing, Style News
Eli Neugeboren

There's a big difference between eliminating a zit and eliminating a person, and we should be wary of giving power to others to make such distinctions, and to base laws upon the distinctions they make.

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