Photo Company Alters Senior Yearbook Pictures at LFHS

LAKE FOREST, IL - An outside photography business has admitted to inadvertently altering senior yearbook photos at Lake Forest High School.

“When I first saw my picture I didn’t recognize myself,” LFHS Senior Tara Tuohy told the Daily North Shore. “Pimples were blotted out, my dimples were removed, my nose was smaller and they kind of shrunk my face.”

Another student told the DNS that not only her, but those of several others, yearbook photos were “so photoshopped.”

The company behind the changes, Wheeling-based Visual Image Photography, admits its fault but claims the changes were based on an error and nothing was done intentionally.

“I do know that with the software we used some of these things can be done, but were not intended to be done for high school seniors,” Steve LaMaster, director of portrait studios for VIP, told the DNS.

Photo alterations included raised cheeks, narrowed necks, resized chins and one ear was completely airbrushed out of one photo.

LaMaster says a supervisor missed the changes after reviewing the photos to send back to the school.

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