Botched School Photos Cost Company $75K

Earlier this week we heard about a school picture company that went over the line when prepping digital photos for a yearbook for a Texas high school. From the AP:

"Students at McKinney High School were stunned to get their yearbooks this week and see that some heads had been put on other people's bodies, sometimes of the other sex, and one girl appeared to be nude."

Ouch! You can see some of the botched alterations on local Web site McKinneyNews.net.

How did this happen? The school yearbook insisted on uniformity in all the student photos, and somebody at Lifetouch National School Studios went a bit too far in trying to get the job done. A spokesperson for the company called it "an unfortunate lapse in judgment," and Lifetouch is paying about $75,000 to reprint all the yearbooks.

The takeaway: Do your best work, even when the job is high school portraits.

(P.S. - Photoshop Disasters, where are you on this one?)