Anti Photoshop Research Paper

By taking a different approach and using comedy and entertainment, Tina Fey has brought people together to understand the important topic of body image in a way people will listen. Body image for women has been a major issue in our world and there has been little change to stop it. “‘Why can’t we accept the human form as it is?’ screams no one. I don’t know why, but we never have. That’s why people wore corsets and neck stretchers and powdered wigs” (142). Everyone wants perfection. Everyone wants what they don’t have. No one is perfect. Everyone has flaws. If the world cannot accept this, people will continue resorting to modified images to produce this “ideal beauty.” One of Fey’s more interesting stories is when she talks about photoshop. Photoshop is a tool which contaminates how people see the human body. But this “perfect body” is intangible. Fey states that everyone is beautiful, and it takes a strong society to believe it. “Photoshop is just like makeup” Fey states, “when it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole” (142). She relays on the idea that we are taking away the reality of our bodies when using photoshop. Fey’s attachment of a joke with the large and complex idea that photoshop dehumanizes a person is what keeps the reader captivated with the story and wanting to know more. Fey is able to reveal that a picture is an alteration of the true beauty of a person when put through photoshop. The reader is therefore able to assume, beyond all of her funny jokes, Fey

Photoshop has many uses. It is used to design posters and create art. However, it has negative uses too. For example, manipulating images. Manipulation using Photoshop to alter model’s bodies in the media negatively impacts society by creating an image that imposes an unrealistic body standard and is the root cause of recent adolescent eating disorders. Peoples of all genders are impacted by the modification of model’s bodies. Whether it be one is not skinny enough or one does not have enough muscle, it generates a frequent belief that one’s body is not good enough.

This brings me to the controversy surrounding enhanced photos and image editing software that erases flaws and allows for skin whitening. Therefore, the audience is cultivated from a young age to an unrealistic view of society.

Within the past few decades, technology has completely transformed. The height and talent of today’s technology has completely changed America and its views. Technology has completely changed and expanded over the past 20 years. Within the past decade a new form of editing technology was created, and that technology is Photoshop. Photoshop is a software used to alter images. In todays day and age, photoshop has become the norm. It is everywhere and it cannot be escaped. Photoshop is used on everything and everyone, and it is affecting us at an extremely negative rate. Due to the works of Photoshop being used on every single media platform, society has adapted to the perfection in photos that were altered by Photoshop. What the world sees when they look at a photoshopped picture is what a company views as perfection, and this image creates an unhealthy comparison between the viewer, the image, and those around them. With Photoshop, images are altered beyond recognition. The Photoshop software takes away any blemish and flaw, and it can make the model used in the photo unrealistically thin, and by this it creates an unachievable body image. When these images are viewed by society, they only see the photo, and they don’t see the hours and hours spent altering the image to actually make them appear this way. So, when society, especially young children and young adults, see these insanely altered images they see something that isn’t real. They see someone that isn’t realistic,

Photoshop, is almost always used in today’s media but many people refuse to see or believe it. The more photoshop the media uses the lower the self esteem, higher the depressions rates and an increase in eating disorders and mental illnesses. So why does the media still use photoshop when it is so harmful? How does it really affect girls and teenagers? What can prevent these effects of Photoshop? Photoshop has harmed high school girls to the point where 30% of them have an eating disorder (Vaynshteyn).

According to Vaynshteyn, 78 percent of seventeen-year-old girls are “unhappy with their bodies” and 42 percent of girls in “grades 1 to 3” want to be thinner (2014). These shocking statistics prove that Photoshop damages lives in our generation while increasing the risk of depression and eating disorders. The media artificially illustrates women and transforms them into fake icons that many people look up to. For example, a woman who modeled for Ralph Lauren was a victim of “poor imaging and touch-ups” that eventually was found to be associated with Photoshop (Kite, 2014). Through Photoshop, entire appearances are modified and reality gradually has become less of the real

III. Photoshop has done wonders to our society it has changed how we look and how we want to look. For Example if you are 50 and you want to look in your 30s it’s possible through photoshop

Beauty is America’s outlet of perfection for the average ego, an industry solely based on the prevailing taste of the age, packaging “beauty” as a product for its admirers. This magical bottle can be found on just about any shelf, from daily nutritious food items down the aisle, to the magazines that catch the eye on the way to check out. Digital photo editing has a lot to do with the reason why our society thinks this way. It has its upsides to it like increased product evaluation and therapeutic values, but it also has shown byproducts (that have either directly or indirectly led to things) such as false adverting, lower self-esteem, anorexia and even obesity.

Huge controversy if whether photoshop is serving any justice and if it should be permitted in magazines. Even though photoshop may make people look outstandingly attractive, it should not be allowed in magazines because it lowers the majority of people's self esteem, leads to various types of eating disorders, and makes the model look unrealistic.

As the rising of the technology, most of the pictures are having a lot of Photoshop today. Photoshop is a tool which people can modify and edit pictures online. People often modify the pictures because they want it to be perfect and attract more consumers to buy their products, it used for advertisement such as magazines. Although photoshopping can be an art craft in some ways, it is developing the ability of imagination for a person’s interest. But it is not ok to Photoshop the pictures that will be sent for publication such as a newspaper or advertisement.

It is too common for women to compare themselves to images of models, actresses and singers they see in the media. Many of these images aren’t even real, media uses photoshop to make models look thinner and clearer. These images distort our perception of beauty, Photoshop makes models look unattainably perfect. The video Evolution was created in 2007 by the Dove self-esteem project, and highlights the untold story of the journey from real to retouched photos (The Evolution Video). This video illustrates just how lighting, makeup and digital manipulation distort our perceptions of women.

Businesses have countless applications for the computer software known as Photoshop. The software is such an integrated part of society that businesses and scholarly articles assume people have prior knowledge of what it is and what it does. Photoshop is defined by Oxford as trademarked digital image-editing software to alter photographic images. It is an industry standard for digital graphics and has many applications to various businesses and media. Lev Manovich wrote in Inside Photoshop that to count up the number of options in Photoshop and then count all the options each option subsequently contains, that the total number of options the software allows for would be in the thousands. Professionals in media, education, research, and many businesses utilize the software. However, there is controversy surrounding the use of Photoshop in advertisements that edited models to unrealistic levels, because of the impact those images have on society. Nonetheless, Photoshop is widely used and has revolutionized business and integrated into many industries not limited to media or photography.

“The average American is exposed to over three-thousand ads every single day, and will spend two years of his or her life watching television commercials” (Kilbourne). Everyday people are exposed to billboards, television commercials, influential mall kiosks, and magazine images that portray beautiful, flawless, perfect women selling a product. The women in these advertisements have had their hair, makeup, and even their body profile altered in order to look a certain way. That altered image is what Americans think beauty should be. Advertisement companies are continuously photoshopping women in their advertisements, giving a false idea of what women should look like; this is wrong and it needs to be banned in the United States.

The usage of certain software programs that are used to alter the body in most magazines, producing unrealistic expectations to general public. Visit any magazine stand and all you see gracing the cover are thin, curvy women with flawless skin, Almost all of these women have been digitally altered to achieve the look that media has deemed as beautiful. In recent years, there

In chapter nine of Digital snaps: the new face of photography, titled Retouch Yourself: The pleasures and politics of digital cosmetic surgery, written by Tanya Sheehan, who is an associate professor and chair of the department of art at Colby College. She discusses the effect of the Photoshop look on society, and how with technology progressing it has become easier to create and have the perfect body look you have always wanted.