Most, if not all, school photography companies offer this service and it’s an expectation as an available option for schools.” Jennifer Greene was outraged by the idea that she should retouch her daughter Madeline’s school photo (inset left). In a statement to The Post, Lifetouch said, “Our goal is always to authentically capture each child we photograph. Photo retouch is an entirely opt-in service that customers choose to add on to photo packages. “I’m going to need someone to explain to me why offers PHOTO RETOUCH for KIDS school pics?!” she tweeted late last month.
Greene, a travel blogger and social media administrator, was so incensed by the Photoshop proposition that she blasted the company on Twitter.
Last fall, Florida mom Kristin Loerns was shocked to find that her then-10-year-old son Kieran’s freckles had been edited out of his school photo (pictured at right) when she requested basic retouching for blemish removal. Retouching options on school portraits aren’t new - but they’re now being offered to students as young as pre-K and are becoming as ubiquitous as face-altering filters on social media, which have triggered a spike in anxiety and depression in teen girls. “I completely disagree with, because it’s teaching kids that they need to look perfect all the time and that they can change with the click of a mouse.” “I was shocked,” Greene, 43, told The Post. So when the Maryland mom opened the seventh-grader’s school picture package from photography company Lifetouch and saw it urged parents to lay out an extra $12 for portrait “retouching” services - including teeth whitening, skin-tone evening and blemish removal - she freaked. Jennifer Greene doesn’t want her 12-year-old daughter, Madeline, to feel pressured into looking picture-perfect. Paris Hilton: Infamous ‘stop being poor’ T-shirt is fake Internet baffled by photo of girl seemingly stuck in sidewalk Model with 480,000 followers exposes how ‘fake!’ Instagram is Intelligence agency busted for blatant Photoshop job on cover of diversity report