Yearbook Arrives With Altered Photos

firemedic918 09:54:01 AM May 22 2008

ckychickidr 05:22:32 PM May 21 2008

Report This! also to all the people complaing of lifetouch "ripping them off" on the price of the photos, your not being ripped off if your consenting to pay the price idiot.
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But your company "created " this scam......no all the kids will be traumatized, need counseling, and may end up on welfare because of your actions.....and your the idiot for saying you work for them.....:-)

ckychickidr 05:22:32 PM May 21 2008

also to all the people complaing of lifetouch "ripping them off" on the price of the photos, your not being ripped off if your consenting to pay the price idiot. Obviously the photos are good enough for you to feel the need to purchase them. there no obligation to buy that photos they get sent to the school and you can buy them if you want, and if you dont want them, you dont buy them. Now if your having to pay the same day then you can only thank yourselves for that, because that means the parents arent returning pictures and are just keeping ones they havent paid for cheap asses. It means we had to call collections one too many times for that school

ckychickidr 05:15:07 PM May 21 2008

I work for lifetouch. Now you say its sooooo simple for every photo to be taken exactly the same with the heads in that say spot and they eyes as well and for the most part it is pretty easy, but what you have to understand that alot of these schools make these requests after the school had already been photographed, also its alot harder to reposition your camera the exact same when your switching back and forth between taking full bodied poses as well as headshots. Lifetouch is a good company but were a big company and just like people have some bad apples where they work, we have our own as well.

Now if your child is consistantly taking bad photographs with every photograph well then maybe you should start talking to your child about the bad photo. We dont live in a perfect world so you not going to get perfection 100% of the time. Also i think its very ridiculous that you would point out that some of our brochures are lit with 4-5 lights and that in real life we only use 2. Sin

ballphoto 01:54:01 PM May 21 2008

Making all heads the same size and eyes at the same level is very easy to accomplish at the moment the image is made. Nothing needs to be altered later on in a computer. And, it was accomplished easily for decades on film, before the computer age. Of course, it takes a professional. Lifetouch says this is "...unusual and very particular..." How interesting for Lifetouch to admit that such a common sense request is hard for them. On another note, the Lifetouch brochures - for events such as proms - which I've seen display images lit with four to five lights. The actual images which students receive have been lit with two lights and there is absolutly a big difference in how the image looks. And one last thing - most local government tax collectors really aren't set up to travel to Lifetouch headquarters to inspect records to determine the accuracy of sales taxes.

supadupiantoo 01:48:58 PM May 21 2008

The funny thing is that those students will look like their altered photos in a few years :D

jmkproracing 01:35:19 PM May 21 2008

No need to worry .... in two years you won't look like you do now and you will never open up your yearbook again...

just wait and see.... LOL

atouchofhome2000 11:09:33 AM May 21 2008

I think lifetouch is a big rip off. The pictures are always unflattering that they take. The photographers are always rude and in a hurry. Try another company. Why don't the Highschools use a local company and save on printing? Maybe someone in their own town. Why do we always use life touch?

Crazy

trestella 10:38:07 AM May 21 2008

Although there is a humorous side to this story, it is never the less sad.
Did no one have a pre-press copy to sign off on. Did nobody look at the images before going to press. Who signed off to go to press.
These are some of the questions I would want an answer to.
The school is also responsible to a degree, as well as the people doing the photoshop work, and assembly of the book.
A lot of times images get played with that the public never will see, the operators do it for a laugh, but that's in house. To let them get into the publication is a real NO NO.
As for the request to do what the school wanted in the retouching and sizing, that is NOT unusual at all. So I do not agree with that statement.
At least the company accepted responsibility.
But the school should look to how it approves this type of thing in the future, you are not faultless in this case. somebodies knuckles need a good rapping?.

janedoe686 08:52:39 AM May 21 2008

try Jostens yearbooks . . . much better than lifetouch!

eribeauty09 12:47:33 AM May 21 2008

Lmao this is funny.