Research to Combat Excessive Photo Retouching

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This article about a newly developed computational model that can detect photographic airbrushing makes me happy:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis/

Here's a sample of some of the photos that were used to build the tool (the top row is un-retouched; the bottom row is retouched):



Image Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis/

It's really exciting stuff!
Emily K.