UPDATED: 12:18 pm EDT October 13, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A local family is outraged by a school photo. When the pictures came back from the studio, a seven-year-old girl’s image appeared to have been doctored to give her cleavage.
The debate is whether the photo just has a very strange shadow or it's been digitally altered by someone.
“It's just bad. It's horrible. She's my baby, not for somebody to look at her like that. She's seven, she's not an adult,” said the girl’s mother, Jenn Truhe.
Truhe cries when she thinks about her daughter’s school picture in disbelief about the class photos she received on Tuesday.
“It blew my mind. I couldn't believe that someone would do that,” she said.
The picture showed the 1st grader with what appears to be significant cleavage. The question remains, is it real or is it Photoshop? Photoshop is a high tech computer program that Truhe believes was used to alter her child's picture.
“Who knows if I was going to get that picture. I'm sure they were supposed to crop it and take it out, and then give me a nice clean picture,” she added.
The owner of the studio would not talk on camera, but said the image is exactly what the camera captured when the picture was taken at Keeth Elementary School in August.
He admitted the image looks odd, but said no one had tinkered with the photo.
Eyewitness News showed the photo to several photography professionals who all said it appeared to have been doctored and likely was not a natural shadow.
Still, the company that took the photo insisted it was. In fact, they have invited the girl and her mother to their studio to try and recreate the conditions of the picture hoping to prove there was no alteration.
Originally Posted by Missouri's Coach Stein
