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Tue 04 Apr 2010Here comes the bride, digitally beautified
If your friends look impossibly young and wrinkle-free in their wedding photos, they may have been given a digital makeover. But are photographers taking liberties with the airbrush? asks EDEL MORGAN
WHEN A couple I know got their wedding photographs back from the photographer, they noticed that everyone looked a little strange in them – more baby-faced and dewy-skinned than normal and eerily translucent. They realised the photographer had performed wholesale digital plastic surgery and removed everyone’s lines, wrinkles and imperfections, even the priest’s.
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