http://www.xovain.com/news/magazine-retoucher-on-altering-weight-face-makeup
This is an interview with a retoucher who works for a glossy magazine, he talk about the work he is asked to do and gives his opinion and reaction to it. Although retouchers are getting blamed for the work and it is their reputation being ruined he says that it is not their fault and that it is the fault of the art directors for not approving the retouchers work until she is thin enough. He says they constantly ask for more yet 'less'; more retouching yet less of the real person.
He also says that stylists are getting lazy because of the advancing capabilities of the retouchers. He says he now adding highlights and creating hairstyles on people because the stylists are depending on the retoucher to do their work.
Reading the comments in reply to this article offers other opinions to it. I agree with one some comments made that they prefer the retouched photograph in the GIF, and that we have been conditioned to like these photographs more because we see so many of them that real people look unnatural to us now.
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