Yearbook company alters students' photos
Categories: Teens & tweens, Weird but true, Education
Students at a Texas High School were surprised recently when they opened their new yearbooks and found that many of their pictures had been altered. Students heads were placed on different bodies, necks were stretched out of proportion, and one girl complained that her photo had been altered to make it look like she wasn't wearing a shirt.A case of Photoshoppers Gone Wild? Not so, says Lifetouch, the company who printed the yearbooks. They say an employee had shown "an unfortunate lapse in judgment" (you think?) in response to the high school's difficult demands. McKinney High School had requested that all student pictures in the yearbook have the same size head and eyes set at the same level.
The employee should be grateful they didn't work on my high school year book. "Make sure each boy's mullet is at least four inches longer in the back than in the front, and that each girl has at least three inches of high bangs, hair-sprayed straight up." On second thought, no photo alterations would have been necessary.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nicola 5-19-2008 @ 2:05PM
If you watched the story and actually saw the "offending" photos, you'd see how ridiculous this is. Lifetouch is in no way at fault. They were doing exactly what the school had requested in making sure that all of the students' heads were at exactly the same height and that the eyes lined up. In order to do so, they had to change dimensions in some cases. It really didn't look that odd and it took me awhile to even see what the complaint was all about. "Oh, so her shoulders aren't actually that wide?". The atrocity of it all. Ah, to be young and to have the cares of the world upon your not-so-wide shoulders...
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Tree 5-19-2008 @ 2:54PM
Um, it also said that heads were switched to different bodies, arms were missing, and one girl looked like she wasn't wearing a shirt, with the chest blurred. I don't think that was exactly what the school requested.
ame s 5-19-2008 @ 5:34PM
Sounds like my high school yearbook, too!
They handle my kids' yearbook and the only mistake was they gave both custodians the same name.
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Carrie 5-21-2008 @ 9:42PM
Tree is correct.Lifetouch went WAY beyond the school's requests--and it wasn't the first time the school made those requests. Lifetouch, further, doesn't handle yearbooks--they are only a photo company. I'm a yearbook adviser and this would rank up there with one of my worst nightmares. I've since heard from the adviser at this school via a listserv we're both on and she and her staff spent the weekend at the school trying to sort this out. Lifetouch is paying to have the books reprinted to the tune of $85,000.
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