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

> Incorrect: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.

The trick with mirrors (pure optics, rather than image enhancement) is that photos are not "edited" or "retouched" ;)

> It's no secret that images of models are often retouched

Well it's not a secret, but it's not obvious for most teenagers. And may be not either for people without high degrees education.

A lot of people, and I suppose not only in France, are not at peace with their body shape, even if they're not obese nor anorexic. Been exposed to not really existing bodies images can be painful for self esteem.

Of course, computer modified photos are recent, but fashion already used lightning and tricking exposure when producing photos from film since, well, the fashion press exists I guess.

The implication of this article is that agencies would be obligated to use what the article calls "more obtainable" bodies. Is this actually the case? I think it's vastly more likely that this will do little more than sharply increase the demand for people that actually have the bodies that other individuals were being photoshopped to have.

It'd be like if a country banned all voice processing software when singing (which has become ubiquitous today). It's not like studios would simply begin accepting people with less than ideal singing voices. Instead they would actually have to seek out talent that can sing without having their voice filtered through digital signal processing software. And in the end, I think this would (and will) be a good thing. Authenticity should be encouraged and incentivized.