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Students' photos altered in McKinney yearbook
Students' photos altered in McKinney yearbook
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Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else's body – or looking nude – in the final product.
Yearbook photos for 583 McKinney High School students were altered by a national photography company.
The yearbooks were delivered Monday.
Some girls' heads ended up on boys' bodies, and vice versa. Some necks were stretched, and some outfits were altered.
McKinney school officials say they are appalled by the changes and called them unethical.
"I cannot even figure out why they did some of the things that they did," said Lori Oglesbee, the school's yearbook adviser.
The problem photos are obvious. One girl's arm is missing. Another girl is missing her clothing – and was left with a blurred chest.
Multiple students have the same body and clothes. Some shirt colors were changed, while patterns and wording on other shirts were wiped out.
At least 34 students had someone else's body.
Officials from Lifetouch National School Studios Inc., the Minnesota-based photography company, said someone at the company made the alterations in an attempt to comply with the school's photo guidelines.
The school wanted student head sizes approximately the same and students' eyes at the same level in the photos.
"Unfortunately, we misinterpreted what those guidelines were," said Sara Thurin Rollin, a spokeswoman for Lifetouch.
"It is not the Lifetouch standard practice to alter images for yearbook publications," the company said.
But McKinney school officials said that they weren't looking for those types of alterations and that it doesn't explain why some of the changes were made.
"There's somewhat of an issue with accepting responsibility," McKinney school spokesman Cody Cunningham said.
About 39 percent of the 1,486 photos were changed.
The vast majority of altered photos were of underclassmen, but several senior photos also appear to have been changed, school officials said.
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