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Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Are they going to start telling you when they're wearing makeup or not?

You can tell this is the case most of the time

With PS, it's impossible to say when viewing it on print/low-res media if the job was done correctly

Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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I'm disappointed and appalled how this headline is in gross violation of Adobe®'s General trademark guidelines (http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html). It should read "Is her image enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software? [...]"

Maybe that's the next thing that should be legally enforced somewhere in this world.

Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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We've seen first steps toward this in the UK. Ads for mascara now have to say if the image is photoshopped or not. This is mostly policed by the companies themselves, reporting each other to Advertising Standards.

The mascara thing you mention is about avoiding false representation of the effects of the product.

This is very different, it is specifically about thinness, I believe that anorexia (or if not anorexia at least the psychological troubles that can lead to it) are becoming very common among teens, so it is more than anything else a "public health" campaign to remove the (false, or retouched) images of impossibly thin models from becoming the "reference model" of the youngers.

There was already something similar in a few EU countries, where Laws or Codes of Conduct were made prohibiting to hire fashion models with a BMI lower than 18 for the catwalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Legislation

The debate was at the time (and still is) whether the BMI in itself is a good metrics.

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