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"Seventeen magazine has pledged to always feature \"real girls\" in its pages following a popular online petition from 14-year-old Julia Bluhm (pictured center).\nBluhm's petition, which was posted to Change.org on April 19, asked Seventeen to commit to print one unaltered photo spread per month.\n\"For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think these fake images are what they should be, I\u2019m stepping up. I know how hurtful these photoshopped images can be,\" Bluhm wrote, citing the overly weight-conscious girls in her ballet class.\nThe petition amassed nearly 85,000 signatures in just four days. Seventeen Editor-in-Chief Ann Shoket quickly invited Bluhm and her mother into her offices. Following their conversation, Seventeen's staff signed an eight-point \"Body Peace Treaty\" which pledged to \"never change girls' body or face shapes\" and to be \"totally up-front about what goes into our photo shoots.\"\nThe Treaty appears in Seventeen's August issue beneath a note from Shoket. She carefully refrains from making any definite commitment to change the way Seventeen presents its images, insisting instead that the magazine has never altered the way girls on its pages look. She says Photoshop is only ever used to remove stray hairs and wrinkles in fabric, as well as \"a few zits\" and \"random bra straps,\" pointing to a right-hand image as evidence. She does acknowledge that Seventeen needs to be more transparent about its retouching process however, inviting readers to go behind-the-scenes of photo shoots on its Tumblr blog.\nBluhm, not one to rest on her laurels, is now hoping to exact the same pledge from Teen Vogue. Her new petition, posted Tuesday, has received more than 1,800 signatures as of writing.\n\n\n9 Astounding Photoshop Transformations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Transformation\nSimilar to Dove's \"Evolution\" video, this timelapse clip shows the entire process of a beauty shoot.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Photoshop CS3 - Extreme Re-Touch/Makeover \nThis in-depth video shows, among other things, how to make skin appear blemish-free.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. CS5 Extreme Photoshop CS Makeover\nMost people would be happy with this \"before\" photo, but the touchup process \"beautifies\" the image even more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Extreme Photoshop Transformation\nThis clip demonstrates how easy it is to change face and neck shape.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Before and After Photoshopped Celebs\nConcentrating on celebs, this collection of clips offers some quite astounding before and after comparisons.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Photoshop Makeover - Airbrushing\nThis exercise in airbrushing aimed to achieve the \"synthetic beauty that you see in magazines, for example, Vogue and Elle.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Making A Model Skinnier in Photoshop \nHere we see how a model's build can be altered.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Ugly to Sexy (Extreme Photoshop Makeover) \nThis social experiment shows a man getting a \"makeover.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9.Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover\nThis montage of clips offers a glimpse inside the portrait photo retouching process.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBONUS: Fotoshop by Adob\u00E9 \nFinally, we're including this parody, in which \"Fotoshop\" is touted as a \"revolution in beauty.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFront-page thumbnail courtesy of Flickr, joeshlabotnik"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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