What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the digital manipulation of images using Photoshop to beautify a person and alter some of their features, such as eye color, thinning eyebrows, removing facial blemishes, and changing a hairstyle?

Contemporary scholars differed on the ruling regarding photographic imaging, and the preponderant view is its prohibition. As for those who permitted it, they stipulated for its permissibility that the purpose must be permissible, that the photographer not interfere with the image by modifying or beautifying it, and that the image itself not be forbidden. Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen held the view that photographic imaging does not fall under the category of forbidden imagery because it is merely a نقل (transfer) of an image that Allah has already formed without interference from the photographer, but it becomes forbidden if it is for a forbidden purpose.