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When Photo Retouching Requests Cross Ethical Boundaries

A client asked me to heavily photoshop their family portraits to make everyone look thinner and younger and I did it but now I feel complicit in perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You edited a family to look thinner and younger, and now you feel like part of the problem.

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