Retouching

We're retouching some old photographs.

This picture could use some retouching.

Tom's good at retouching photos in Photoshop.

Ziri fixed the photo with retouching.

The changes have been praised by educators and psychologists — although the praise has been given cautiously. Jean Kilbourne is a documentary film-maker whose series, Killing Us Softly, is a critique of the images of women in western advertising. Ms. Kilbourne says the "real girls" that can now be found in teen magazines are a step in the right direction, but she is still highly critical of the industry's practice of retouching photographs, whether those pictures are of "real girls" or professional models.