Informative Speech About Photoshop

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.

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).

I chose for explore Nace for this paper because he is great at photo manipulation and does extensive teaching. Through Photoshop, Nace creates these unbelievable pictures, some like your childhood dreams coming true, some your worst nightmares. Additionally, Nace is a great teacher through the website YouTube. He teaches millions of followers how to use Photoshop and to acquire the skills professionals have. His videos are details, accurate and

Moving from developing photos in the dark room to now being able to edit and alter photos with a computer has made a large difference in the process of photoshopping. The time and precision of editing an image has advanced as society has moved into a digital age. One tool of photoshopping in the photojournalism industry, tonal manipulation, is supported by the single idea that a photographer feels the need to alter an image to match what they’d seen in real life ("Photoshop and Journalism | Photoshop 25th Anniversary."). With the way that cameras operate today, there isn’t always an organic depiction between what was witnessed in real life and what has shown up through the lense; therefore tonal manipulation is a justified practice. A few main editing operations in tonal manipulation include controlling the brightness, contrast and levels of black and white coloring (Figure 5).

Annotated Bibliography New technological advancements have allowed for an expansion in the art community, specifically photography. Art has been one of the fundamental aspects of human life since the prehistoric ages. It is a way to express oneself and share creativity with large groups of people. As humans have become more and more intelligent, new technologies have been invented. As technology continues to increase, the possibilities of art also escalate.

In my opinion, this makes it harder to appreciate the original efforts of the creations someone is “perfecting”, and can explain why fewer people appreciate what was high art in the past. It’s even gotten to the point where people choose to “redesign” celebrities, as shown by the Johnny Cash Project. Neal Gabler of the Los Angeles Times stated that fans of the renowned folk singer can “share their vision of Johnny ‘as he lives in (their) mind's eye,’ by providing an image of him and a customized drawing tool to reimagine it”. Even in terms of Photoshop and its correlation to beauty, writer Rachel Ann Dennison published an article titled: “Is Photoshop destroying our perception of natural beauty?”. Dennison answers this question with a resounding “yes” under the title, implying that she thinks modern photo-editing applications ruin how people around the world view beauty, and thus, how people view art. Current technology has changed how people see and appreciate art as a whole, and I think this phenomenon proves how society's standards for high-quality art have altered over the

I have always been a lover of photography. Photos reveal a sense of emotion whether that is happiness, sadness, or anger. It can capture such a powerful moment in time. It shows a person who they are, their past, present, and most importantly how they have grown. With the technology that is readily available, and as many pictures that are captured on a daily basis, a story can unfold.

Between the use of film or digital photography, film is the more effective method when looking for originality and creativity. With the adoption of digital photography, the younger generations, as well as the older and more current photographers are becoming lazy. These groups must recognize that the art of the photograph is being jeopardized by the digital camera and the camera phone. For the current photographers as well as amateur photographers, this essay will serve as testimony to film as well as other chemical methods, and how they shouldn’t be ignored, but preferred. The digital era has had a massive impact on the art world and all of its mediums, but for photography this impact has resulted in the removal of the human from the photograph making process. This intimate process is what makes it an art form. All of films imperfections and unique qualities, as well as its monetary value and scarcity are just a few factors that have made it so precious. To replace this entire process with a microchip is offensive and undermines the importance of the process that is needed to make a photograph. Anyone can take a picture but you must make a photograph, and this skill is being simplified to a digital camera. The impact of the digital era on photography has hindered the process of making a photograph; painting the art form obsolete in today’s society.

Today the exposure of photoshop has influenced more women to spend millions of dollars on plastic surgery than ever before in history. The number of surgical procedures performed through America has revealed that plastic surgery rates have increased 457% from 1997- 2007. This proves, to the world that many are wasting millions everyday altering their bodies to attempt to fit humanity’s standards. Photoshopping an image itself costs typically about $100 which means that as more people use photoshop the more money is wasted creating bogus pictures. Many companies worldwide have used photoshop to advertise to consumers that certain products work more than they really do. This causes many consumers to buy products that actually don’t work as well as advertised in real life. Photoshop has generated many people to misuse money on products that don’t work and to try to create themselves into an image they aren’t by spending

A flourishing issue that causes major health risks between all ages, genders, and races worldwide goes unnoticed in many cases and shows little sign of ceasing. This “silent killer” comes not in the form of a new drug or game between reckless friends, but in the form of media’s most malicious secret: photoshop. For years, the media has cropped and slimmed its spokespeople and covermodels, and still commits this practically unnoticed yet incredibly dangerous act today. Although at times it may seem harmless, photoshopping in the media actually causes its viewers to strive to achieve complete perfection—perfection that cannot possibly exist. Even with the terrible accusations against photoshop, some contend that these images

A world without photography seems merely impossible to the modern age humans. Photography is seen throughout our everyday lives, from the television, to smartphones, and on our computers, it seems impossible to avoid it. But why would we want to? Photography is a vision, a memory, a moment captured in time that makes it possible for humans to share these moments with others. But more than times than not, these moments, visions, photographs are altered, manipulated, and distorted to influence, and change the audience’s view. By analyzing the many methods the photographer’s ways of manipulating, altering, and the distortion of the truth of their works, one can conclude that not everything shown is accurate and often overlooked by the

Although Sturken and Cartwright claim it is quite easy to fall for the misconception that photographs are “unmediated copies of the real world” (Sturken & Cartwright, 17), this is no longer true, if it ever was. While cumbersome, even before the advent of image editing software, it was possible to modify photographs. Furthermore, in contemporary society, we have completely lost faith in mass media representation; rarely do people expect images to be completely unmodified anymore. This is especially visible in western culture since people are pressured to conform into highly specific aesthetics where even a “natural” look is artificially crafted with makeup and digital filters. Even disregarding direct manipulation to a print through methods such as Photoshop, photographs are manipulated in such obvious ways, it almost seems absurd to point it out. The framing, lighting, and positioning are always adjusted by the photographer. Therefore, people themselves are a type of manipulation; a representative filter through which biases are imbued. In effect, Sturken and Cartwright’s conclusion that all camera-generated images bear an “aura of machine objectivity” (Sturken & Cartwright, 16) stemming from “the … legacy of still-photography” (Sturken & Cartwright, 17) is

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.

It creates bitmapped images. Bitmap Images is one of many types of file formats for images stored in a programmed form. It carries the extension .BMP. Computers use bits of 1 and 0 to store data. A bitmap is literally a map of bits that form a particular picture when rendered to a display like a computer monitor. Adobe Photoshop is a well known program used by digital photographers around the world. The great quantity of Photoshop tips and tutorials make this a very easy program to learn and to use. Photoshop can be used to take any existing image and give it a professional, polished looked. Borders can be added and pictures tweaked to look better than any digital camera could make possible. Almost anything I can think of doing to a picture is accomplished when using adobe Photoshop. Bitmaps are much larger than vector file size and can lose quality when enlarged or reduced.

Photoshop – editing photos like tarpaulins, banners, magazine cover, ID Laces, mug, t-shirt layouts, photo card in my Grade 7