One of the front page stories on Yahoo! news this morning was about a problem with McKinney High School yearbooks. Apparently, the printing company contracted to produce the yearbooks went a little crazy with Photoshop and royally screwed things up. The company, Lifetouch National School Studios in Minnesota, stretched, mangled, switched, and otherwise altered photos of students throughout the pages of the book.
No real explanation was given for all of these alterations, though a spokeswoman for Lifetouch said that the school insisted that all the students’ heads be the same size and eyes be on the same level. Apparently, Lifetouch employees took that as license to run amok with their image editing tools.
This is definitely a strange story, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a “scandal” as Yahoo! did. Give me a break!!!
(In the photo I’ve posted, apparently the girl’s neck is stretched out longer than it is IRL.)