Some people are shocked — shocked! — to find out how much digital retouching goes into modern magazine photos. I’m not, of course, but this bit from Pixel Perfect, which looks at digital artiste Pascal Dangin, seems pretty rich, even to me:
I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked. “But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.”