Persuasive Essay On The Use Of Photosop

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.

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).

I believe that photoshop is wrong, in which the photoshoper manipulates an image to make the person look worse. Also, I believe that it's wrong because they're making the image into somehting it isn't and that's the same thing as lying. In a March of 2014 article on BeautyRedefined.net, an image of Kelly Clarkson on SELF Magazine was photoshopped to make her look a lot thinner than she actually was. It was proved that the image was photoshopped when Clarkson appeared on Good Morning America just a few days later, and looked nothing like the image on SELF.  Photoshopping an image is editing an image, thus making it a different

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.

Everyday, magazines produce and print pictures of models that were re-touched or edited, people post pictures on social media with multiple filters applied, and professional photographers use special tools to make the model “more appealing”. All of the editing never makes the picture different. The picture is still taken of the same person, doing the same thing. Photoshop isn’t meant to change the purpose of the picture, which is why everyone is victimized of using photoshop themselves. Everyday people use photoshop to edit their pictures, so why is it bad if magazines use photoshop as well. For these reasons and many more, magazines and newspapers should be allowed to use photoshop to edit their pictures.

Celebs use it all the time to create that perfect other-worldly look to their bodies and faces. Sometimes that is a bad thing though. So many women have lower self esteem due to this simple 'smoke and mirrors effect' of Photoshop. What I find interesting is America is very pro-Photoshop in nearly every single magazine, ad, etc.

With the use of photoshop people have been lured into believing that flawless beauty does exist, but in reality, this level of perfection is unsustainable(“Keep it”). Photo shopped images have a negative effect on humanity. Doctored photos are detrimental to society.

Have you ever seen a photo that looked just a little too perfect? People around the globe are using their technical and photographic skills to alter their photos. Some may do a small amount of editing but some go to the extreme to alter their whole appearance to look like a total different person. For example, many people use the photo shopping to just blur a bit of acne away but others take the time to change their skin tone and even their eye color! I believe photo shopping is not okay because, it plays with others minds, it lowers confidence levels, and it promotes perfection, which is something that is non-existent.

The difference between perception and reality has never been further. Photoshop has allowed photographers to go from using their own skills to being able to rely on modern technology to do the job for them. As Photoshop has boomed, so have the statistics of eating disorders, low body image and skewed public perspectives of what the human body should look like. In recent years, many companies, organizations and individuals have made great efforts to begin an “Anti-Photoshop” campaign in order to regulate or completely eliminate the use of Photoshop in mass media.

Teens and young people see it all the time, like in life or on the internet. However, most people use the internet every single day. I know I see photoshop pictures online. It is really bad to let them see it. Some girls put on makeup every single day. So why have another step? Photoshop can be great in some ways but, also harmful. Studies have found out that 78% of 17-year-olds girls are unhappy with their bodies. Teenage girls are more afraid of gaining weight then losing their parents.

When presented with the question of “who is to blame for today’s beauty standards?” the simple yet obvious answer comes to mind, the media. What an abundant amount of people for reasons unknown to me, fail to realize, though, is that the media is not an all-powerful being that has a mind of its own. The media is ran by humans and watched by humans. Both having an equal share in what is publicized, one cannot survive without the other. Numerous individuals have argued that if we were all too just boycott anyone who uses photoshopped images of anyone for marketing strategies that they would just cease to exist anymore.

Photoshop and extreme beauty practices create unrealistic standards for men and women. I have always understood this phenomenon on a theoretical level and accepted its effect on my peers. Nonetheless,

Yes, I do agree that Photoshop will create unrealistic expectation towards society. I will put the blame all on the media, because many American kids use more than one form of media like television, computers, video games and other media for approximately seven and a half hours a day. Back in 2003,

Half of the photographers in our generation advocate for the use of photoshop, claiming that the software is so widely used, there would be just as much complaining if it was not used. In our society two different forms of photography really exist, commercial photography used for magazines and advertisements, and then landscape and are photography. Now in between the two there’s the type of photography that captures images of families for Christmas cards, or an 18 year old’s high school “senior pictures”; which takes a real eye and talent, but also falls under the photography of people. Commercial photography is one of the biggest victims of photoshop. Countless celebrities, male and female, can be cited complaining about their images being “retouched”. Actress Jennifer Lawrence is the odd one out, stating “‘I love Photoshop more than anything in the world. Of course it’s Photoshop – people don’t look like that’” (Banks). She makes a point that this society is so accustomed to seeing only the most beautiful people on the cover of magazines that its what everyone should expect. “British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman explained to Lily Allen on BBC Radio 2: ‘Nobody really wants to see a real person looking like a real person on the cover of Vogue’” (Banks)