The art of retouching

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btw none of this is surprising to me at all since i work in a professional photography lab and see retouched/unretouched photos every day. i'm sure most people here have had family or senior high school portraits taken with standard retouching done. of course probably not as overdone as the link above, but still. i mean really, who wants to spend hundreds of dollars on a portrait of themselves only to see wrinkles, bags, blemishes, etc ? people want to look nice.