Published Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:13 AM

Firm to pay for altered yearbook

Associated Press

McKINNEY -- A photo company says it's taking full responsibility for altered pictures that ruined a high school yearbook and will pay to have the publication reprinted before the seniors graduate.

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 that one girl appeared to be nude.

Sara Thurin Rollin, a spokeswoman for Lifetouch National School Studios Inc., said Saturday that the company sometimes touches up photos to cover blemishes and the like.

Rollin said Lifetouch would bear the full price of reprinting the yearbooks, which she estimated at $75,000, and get the new books in students' hands before they leave for the summer.

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