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Rachel Weisz’s Ad Banned in the UK: More Photoshop Antics

Another dispatch from the seemingly never-ending Photoshop debate. Britain’s Advertising Standard Authority has banned Rachel Weisz’s new ad for L’Oréal Revitalift Repair 10 due to, of course, too much photoshopping.

Photoshop Scandal Redux: Companies May Have to Stop Photoshopping Ads

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Quick on the heels of two Photoshop debacles that blew up our blog recently (see: The Great Photoshop Debate and H&M’s Scandal), here comes another. Last Friday, Procter & Gamble, the parent company of CoverGirl, pulled one of their NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara ads featuring Taylor Swift. The company made the move after the National Advertising Division (NAD), a watchdog agency and part of the Council of the Better Business Bureau, launched an investigation into their photoshopping practices.

Photoshop Scandal: H&M Digitally Pasted Real Model Heads Onto Virtual Bodies

A few days ago The Great Photoshop Debate really heated up on our blog when we pondered whether a label on a photoshopped picture could remind us that no one looks as perfect in the flesh as they do in magazines. Now, there’s an even crazier controversy on our hands: how virtual is too virtual? For their new lingerie campaign, H&M took real model’s faces and photoshopped them on top of computer-generated bodies.