Persuasive Speech On Photoshop

Why does the media use Photoshop? The internet, magazines, television, and advertisements in any public or private places uses Photoshop to create an illusion of what a perfect girl or person is. The photoshop the media is used to erases cellulite of the models and cuts parts of their body to make them thinner. But some people may say they might not like seeing someone fat or a more realistic picture because it would make them feel bad. The problem in that is these younger or naive girls are being affected and feeling bad about these unrealistic pictures of these super skinny models. Using photoshop is creating illusions of these models that look anorexic and if the media used something more realistic they would realize they are normal and not need to drastically lose weight, go tanning or whiten their teeth. Ashley Brown said “Photoshop has the power to manipulate appearances beyond recognition.” She writes in an scholar article how Photoshop can change appearances in a

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

“Companies should absolutely stand up against Photoshop, especially those that once endorsed it and now see the damage it has caused,” Legleitner said. You may be left wondering: “What damage?”. The damage left from the use of photoshop is immense and it extends much farther than what may come to mind. A research study done by Heather R. Gallivan, PsyD, LP Park Nicollet Melrose Center found that “53% of 13 year-old American girls are unhappy with their bodies. This number grows to 78% by the time girls reach 17.” Her research shows that at approximately the age of 12 girls will have the most confidence in their body and then as the years progress of their youth that confidence will plummet. Another statistic that Gallivan shared was that in 2010 the Girl Scouts Organization did a survey with over one-thousand girls ages 13-17, the results noted that: “ 9 out of 10 girls felt pressure by fashion and media industries to be skinny.” It further explained that 60% of girls compare themselves to the models and use the images put out by magazines as an ideal body to strive for. Women and girls that feel this unethical influence by the fashion industry often times go through impacts including: depression, eating disorders, anxiety or even as terrible as suicidality. Knowing that women face emotional and physical impacts based off the unrealistic edited images put out by their brand should be disheartening to the companies at fault.

Photoshop is known to fix even the slightest imperfections. This sets impossibly high standards for what women expect for themselves. Photoshopped images are destroying America’s body image. The media sets up high beauty and body standards for women. The media takes beautiful women and tells them they are not beautiful enough. Being beautiful nowadays is having a face covered in make-up, being “skinny” is having a thigh gap, and to be perfect is to have no flaws. Women need to start realizing they are beautiful with their flaws, but it’s a hard process to love your flaws and imperfections. Dove made a commercial about loving something as simple as your curls. A handful of young women (ages 5 to 11) were asked about how they feel about their

As defined by Merriam-Webster, the definition of Photoshop is as follows: “to alter (a digital image) with Photoshop software or other image-editing software especially in a way that distorts reality (as for deliberately deceptive purposes)”. Even the definition states that Photoshop distorts reality, yet girls still think that models have the ideal body image. The real reality is that models set an unattainable and unrealistic way for girls to look like. In “No Model For Girls” by Fiona Bawdon, the author explores how models and Photoshop can negatively affect adolescent girls body image. The author states that, “magazine images are routinely airbrushed: thighs slimmed, wrinkles smoothed and blemishes removed” (29). How are adolescent girls not supposed to feel self-conscious and compare themselves to models when, in with a touch of Photoshop, models can look skinnier, have a flawless face, and appear more beautiful? Another startling statistic that was in the same study conducted by Marium Javaid and Iftikhar Ahmad, was that “actresses and models had 10-15% less body fat whereas the average body fat for healthy women is 22-26%” (30). This displays just how extremely thin and unrealistic these models are. The body fat for a healthy woman is 22-26%, yet girls still see themselves as fat and continue to try and lose weight. This trend is growing more popular in today’s society, however, girls need to understand the importance of not comparing their own bodies to other people. It is an unnecessary and potentially harmful comparison to

The photos have been edited and airbrushed to look perfect, even if it is not the reality. Which means that when people compare themselves to these pictures they are comparing themselves to something that is unrealistic and unreachable. When people feel inadequate because they do not look like what others consider pretty they look at alternative methods to change themselves. This is often times how people develop Anorexia, because they see people in the media being praised for being thin and they want to be like them, and eating less makes sense to them. With the banning of Photoshop, there would no longer be images out in the media that are unrealistic, and people can see others how they are and even the imperfections in a person can be seen as beautiful and

Artists, editors and photographers plead the fact that they were provided with such great tools, but are constantly criticized for using them. Although there have been some very questionable fails in ads that deal with Photoshop, there have also been some very successful trials with Photoshop. Even though Victoria’s Secret models’ are retouched to have the ideal “beach bod”, they are also and inspiration for most people. According to Holmstrom in 2004, “results of studies done by both Crouch and Degelman (1998) and Biocca (1992) have shown that media increases positive body image, rather than a negative body image, in young women.” The exposure to these models’ beautiful bodies supposedly raises a positive body image amongst young women. Self esteem is raised because they aim to achieve the bodies portrayed to them in the media. Victoria’s Secret is obviously reaping benefits from this as well. Being one of the most famous lingerie stores in the United States and selling their bras from prices anywhere from $20-$258 (for one of their Designer Collection lingerie sets) along with the millions of women and teenage girls shopping at the store for the perfect fit that makes more self-confident, even if they’re the only one that ever sees their

"Technology has brought us many [good things], but also problems. Beauty is subject to its magical touch-ups. What we see on magazine covers as the model of beauty isn't real. I think that's very damaging. Celebrities feel this pressure too. A few years ago, I considered [cosmetic] surgery."(Pop singer Shakira , Teen People, May 2006, p. 54.)

Whenever we go on the internet or look in magazines we see these beautiful people and most men and women aspire to look just like them. But again it’s all but one big lie. What we see on the internet, TV, and magazines is the work of Photoshop, makeup, filters, and much more. Those people are not real, they do not look like that once they wake up, and it’s nothing but a lie. Yet people still believe that it’s real since the camera never lies. Day after day I see girls and women, boys and men hating themselves all because from an image that is not real, an image that has been made by the computer. On Instagram, there was a trend going around where girls and women would try to get “thigh gaps” which are exactly what they sound like, a gap in-between their thighs. To achieve these “thigh gaps” some women and girls would go on diets or some would just stop eating to lose weight just so they can be a part of the trend. The sad thing is that this trend was started with a few pictures of celebrates that were made by the computer. Not once did they stop to question it. Not once did they stop to think.

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

The use of photoshop has a major impact on the plastic surgery industry. Min Kim Park an assistant professor of photography in the department of art and design states, “The search for perfection drives us to create these unrealistic

As stated before, due to the loss of confidence in society's younger generation, people try and change themselves to various extents to fit the mold photo-shopping has created for them. What was omitted from the previous paragraph was the horrendous extent of it. Unfortunately, society's expectations has led people to shun and even bully those who do not fit into the mold. This causes eating disorders and depression. Indeed, it is no wonder that this might become a “reflection of the events and spirit of our times for the future” (Grundberg 35). How far will people go to achieve the expectations photo-shopping has raised? Plastic surgery, dieting, self-harm, perhaps even going so far as suicide; all of them are caused by how these altered pictures make people view the world and the people in it. Such false advertising should be condemned. It is like false advertising for medication. Instead of overdosing on pills, society's overdosing on appearances. Having been photo-shopped, images of models drastically change the population's views on what beauty entails, resulting in health problems beyond measure, some even going as far as to result in

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.

The article dicussed Photoshopping the appearance or body image of models and the book discussed surgery which changed the appearance of Uglies into New Pretties. In the book the Uglies, the citizens of Uglyville wait until they are sixteen to be changed to ‘pretty.’“ Being ‘pretty’ requires the Ugilies, as mentioned on page 24 of the book, to be rubbed raw and grew new skin, perfect and clear. This is a way the surgery changes a person. In the article, Seventeen Magazines uses Photoshop to change how people look in

The definition of photoshop is alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software. Photoshop and digital manipulation can influence people mainly females of the teen,young adult and the adults. If a female teen sees a magazine of this perfect model with no flaws ,extra weight and perfect skin tone. They try to change themselves to “fit in” with that model and other models not knowing the truth behind the picture. What we see as consumers of buying magazines is what I call “Fake Beauty” because in a way it’s really not that person who modeled in the magazine.