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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

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,

Even though these images are photo shopped people believe they can look that way by purchasing the product. However, it is merely a propaganda technique companies and business use to draw in business. Nevertheless, it doe not fail to draw in revenue. Cosmetic companies such as Cover Girl show models using their product, allowing teens to thing if they can use the products the models are using they can look like the model in the advertisement.

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).

Everyone is special and unique in their own way. No one can change the way someone looks and acts. So why let the modeling industry change the way someone should look like. People can not let the modeling industry have an affect on them to where they have eating

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.

To stop the negative impact of Photoshop on teenagers, photographers should only use Photoshop for the good of photography and not to give false images of the social norm. In opposition, many would state that Photoshop provides beauty and promotes financial in marketing. The primary objective is to get money for false looks. American culture is highly obsessed with beauty. Everywhere you go there are advertisements and misleading images. Whether it’s for models or food alterations are used to sell the image. Models appearances on these photos are admired and sought after from the society. Jessica Walker stated in an interview “I do not think Photoshop is bad I use it to make my photos better, but I don’t like what people use it for...The user and its intentions are bad not the program itself”(Walker). The issue is defined as the images being presented giving a false perception. These photos have been tampered with by professionals, in which they think that their model is what society wants to see. Both genders are being affected by the medias view of body image. However, women and teenagers changed the most. Teenage girls have continuously been presented with images that they are supposed to look like, which is unrealistic images. Photoshop causes some teens to have self-esteem issues and many other disorders.

Every time someone looks at a picture, they think that it’s fake even if it’s not because of the multiple scandals that have happened over the past years. Looking at pictures is something people do every day and it’s sad to know that almost none of them are real. In the article “Distorted Picture” by Sherry Ricchiardi, states, “Coworkers were mystified about why a highly talented, hard worker who had garnered a slew of awards would cheat.” This quote is about a photographer named Allan Detrich who manipulated photos and turned them in to his newspaper he worked for called the “Toledo Blade”. According to sources, Detrich edited the pictures in his truck and then later sent them in to his boss. Allan Detrich was one of the top photographers in Ohio and had a reputation for having the most well known pictures. This all ended for him when he did this to himself. The editing of these photos led him to lose his job and a lot of respect from thousands of people. "I wasn’t the first to tamper with news photos and, unfortunately, I probably won’t be the last," he says. "I screwed up. I got caught." (Ricchiardi). Dietrich knew he was caught so he didnt

Another way that photo shop portrayed in the media is negatively affecting society is the increase in use of plastic surgery among teens and young adults. Supporters of cosmetic surgery for teens say: A teenager's emotional maturity should not be measured by age, as each individual is different. Rather, a cosmetic surgeon should carefully interview a teenager, and, when practicable, a teen's parents, to assess the maturity and emotional stability of the child. Cosmetic surgery is a viable means of helping teenagers with cosmetic flaws improve their self-esteem (“Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery”). Although plastic surgery can improve a teenager’s self-esteem, the surgery wouldn’t be needed in the first place if it

The article, “5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters,” by A.J. Willingham, CNN.com. In this “age of misinformation,” you know what you read is true if it looks realistic or not. You can also back it up with sources from other websites or from the news. If you find an image that has a road shark, for example, that’ll obviously be fictional because that cannot possibly occur. Another thing you can do to make sure it’s real is to go and ask your family and teachers if they heard anything about it. Some people provide misinformation to either to be part of the conversation or to just get attention perhaps at school or work to gain attention. You’ll know if what you read is true by looking

An average American is bombarded daily with random propaganda to try to sell what some would consider "perfection". Most American citizens try to emulate those fictional characters in celebrity magazines. The truth is a lot of those pictures are air-brushed and some of the individuals have had extensive cosmetic surgery and other medical procedures done to look that way. This media manipulation is the main cause for the many

The techniques did not begin with the invention of Adobe PhotoShop, the now dominant software program found on a desktop in most photojournalist. However PhotoShop did help the process become a lot easier making manipulation seamless and in effect virtually undetectable. "One must understand that there are several ways to do everything in PhotoShop. You can perform the dodge and burn procedure by three of four different means." says Kevin Connor, Director of Project

Photo manipulation started earlier than you think. As early as 1825 There was a man by the name of Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Joseph have constructed a photographic print using a photo engraved printing plate. He was able to use multiple ways of manipulation. The real photo manipulation did not start until about the 20th century when actual digital photos were being taken regularly. In glamour photography many photographers alter celebrity photos to improve figure, color of hair, teeth, eyes, skin complexion, blemishes, makeup, and piercings. Many editors,in magazine companies,not only do not have problems with digital photoshop and photo manipulation,but some support and

Celebrities have influenced girls to look like them.When people see other women or men who they consider perfect they start to idolize them. According to article Teens and Celebrities “When a teen girl flips through her favorite fashion magazine, inundated with pictures and articles revolving around the erroneous belief that celebrities are perfect” (Teens and Celebrities). When girls see these depictions in magazines, such as Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, People Magazine, Vogue, and others are affected by what they see. They seek to replicate these celebrities. One example is the cover of the magazine Vanity Fair; In the original photo of Madonna, she appears to be muscular in her thigh and her arms. In comparison to the photoshop picture she appears to be less physically fit.There are many reasons to how celebrities have influenced girls to look like them. According to the article Why Do We Idolize Celebrities? , “We are constantly being shown what to do and what not to do by these people that, to us, are held above our heads as we idolize their very existence. We want to look like them, eat like them, exercise like them, talk like them. We want to be them” (Why Do We). When you constantly are being advertised on what celebrities do,people start to do everything they do. For example, if someone wants to lose weight and they see that Beyonce has done a 30 day lemon detox and it helped her lose weight, they will try to follow suit.

Is it a news story that we expect to give truth? Or a National Geographic magazine photograph where we expect to see an accurate depiction of a location or monument? Or is the photograph a garden or beach scene? If the photographer is strictly trying to capture an image for the sole purpose of art, digital alterations should not be considered violations. If the image is for the purpose of a news story or a renowned magazine such as National Geographic or Time, then it would be deceitful to digitally alter images. If National Geographic expects non-altered photograph submissions from citizens, then they should respect the same code. If the evening news digitally alters images to portray a different story, they lose