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Originally Posted by Jaybird
You'll see this on photos that were printed in newspapers for areas with little contrast like the white pants and white background. Also sometimes they will highlight facial features to make them stand out better.
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Some papers had even more, shall we say prolific, "artists" on staff who would cover up logos, re-color uniforms, and even completely paint over and re-create faces. Whatever it took to make an image useful for printing, whether it meant improving contrast, blanking out backgrounds, highlighting details or completely changing elements so that the image fit the story they were running. Since the image quality of photos printed in the newspaper was HORRIBLE compared to even the worst originals, even the most cartoonish of cover-ups could be considered "printable" as long as it had that all-important contrast.
Edited to add: None of that is meant to be a criticism of this photo, but rather to say that the touch-up to it is minor compared to many that I have seen.