What are They Going to Retouch Next, National Forests?

The following post is a quick post from Web Works Staff Designer, N. Tuttle, and is especially revealing after the current Ralph Lauren photo retouching controversy.

Although it's not something that comes up very often in small business web design, the omnipresent practice of digital photo retouching can hit very hard in a personal sense; it affects everything else around us. It's affecting self-perception, the social import of body-image, even our perception of places (it's not terribly difficult to move buildings around on a city skyline).

The question: Now that this wonder of modern technology lets us do so many things with images, do we really know what we're changing?

Read what the British are considering in this New York Times online article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28brush.html?_r=1