We all know or at least we SHOULD all know that there is a lot of retouching done for celebrity photos and fashion magazines. Followers, readers, and viewers of these magazines look up to them for inspiration in style, image and more. This where picture manipulation becomes a touchy subject and media frenzy, depicting these “perfect” images, with unrealistic standards. What we may not know is who is behind these photo retouches, and what he takes from all the criticism of his job. One of the leading behind the scene-retouching artist is Pascal Dangin, who works with big name magazines such as Vogue. He is not only behind the scenes in the sense of his digital work but also due to his hush-hush loyalty to the celebrities and models.  Pascal and many of the people he has worked with consider his work a form of art, and enhancement not this misconstruction of real people. He also beliefs that we live in a world where beauty sells and that being glorified is not a bad thing it is just part of our lives at the moment.  So I leave you to decide, does retouching create beautiful art, or just fictitious ideals?