The debate over the extreme photoshopping of fashion magazine covers has made our Rollcall list this week. The New York Times tackles a subject that’s been on the minds of many in the industry.  To retouch or not, that is the question.  Fashion magazines tend to be aspirational, and some women aspire for perfection.  The argument is cyclical, it comes and goes.  The good news is that the debate is informative, even if the issue is never resolved; it’s likely to have a positive effect on impressionable young men and women who are made aware of the wonders of photoshop.  Some will grasp the fact that they are struggling to attain an impossible standard of beauty, a standard that the person in the photoshopped image cannot live up to.  If that’s the only thing we can accomplish through this debate, then it will be worth it.

Smile and Say ‘No Photoshop’ [The New York Times]