Thesis Statement For Photoshop

Photographs are manipulated for many different reasons, the main one being trying to produce a photograph that captures the reader’s

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent,” once said by the famous Eleanor Roosevelt. As true as that may be, the advances of technology in the modern era make that difficult. Photoshop, an image-editing software that allows you to alter images limitlessly, is one of the biggest dilemmas facing society today. “Photoshop has the power to manipulate an image’s appearance beyond recognition, making it possible to transform an average looking individual into a ‘Barbie girl, in a Barbie world’” ( Brown 87). This act of photo-manipulation didn’t begin with “Adobe Photoshop,” a photoshop software that has been accused of sabotaging the truthfulness of photographs, but rather it began long before in the 1800s when techniques like hand colouring and retouching were done physically by the photographer’s hands instead of a computer’s (Fineman dust jacket). The use of photoshop, or the act of photo-manipulation, has a negative impact on society. It causes self-esteem issues and possibly even eating and mental disorders due to the viewers being falsely directed by “flawless” images that distort reality.

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

Photography is a kind of visual art. In Wikipedia, art was defined as it is “expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power”(3). Art is not simple reality; it is the beautiful pieces that artists put their creativity in and express their ideas. Applying this to photography, using Photoshop to edit pictures is an approach to paint on photos, just like using brush and pigments to paint on a painting. Unlike other kinds of visual art which artists may take a long time to finish, photography is all about the decisive moment. Most of decisive moments are not perfect, because photographers cannot control all the people and objects in the frame in that instant. Hence, if a photographer got a noteworthy photo with a little defect, one could edit the defect out the picture, and make it better express the photographer’s subject and approach to get the best results with Photoshop. Moreover, cameras people use today are not good as human eyes. For instance, human have much better dynamic range and sensitivity than cameras (4). Human easily observe things in the very bright and dark environment at the same time, but camera cannot. However, this issue can be simply solved by Photoshop. In addition, colors in the photos took by digital cameras have very many deviations on colors. Editing pictures can help people adjust the colors.

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.

Manipulating a photo used to typically involve scissors, glue, and a high precision. The first photo manipulation meant that people actually had to move items around to create different photographic compositions. Nowadays, anyone with access to a computer can alter an image easily. But is important to understand the subject, the difference between photo retouch and photo manipulation. What is the difference? Photo retouch means changing the image to remove or repair damage or unwanted blemishes or objects. While photo manipulations means to change the photo with the purpose of altering its message or meaning. It involves transforming or altering a photograph using various methods and techniques in order to achieve desired results. Some photo manipulations are considered skilful artwork while others are considered as unethical, especially when used to deceive the public, such as making a product or person appear more pleasing to the

Other than the possible addition of a filter or internal add-on, most people will never need to surpass this step. However, at this stage nearly all professional photos sit only partially finished, still requiring at least some method of post-production editing. Used in a variety of ways, some photos only need slight adjustment to compensate for the colors or tones that the photographer could not fully reach in their original image. In contrast, whether removing unwanted blemishes or dulling a detracting color, some photographers require many revisions of editing to even come close to their desired product. Regardless of its extensiveness, the freedom to brush away any blemishes and fully accentuate the focal points allows post-production to serve as the vital finishing coat on a photographer’s

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Michael Graupman wrote “perhaps it is time for a refresher course for the media and Americans of what photoshop was created for originally: bringing a subject more into focus, not creating works of fiction.” Photoshop does have its good purposes. However, using the program to this extent must come to an end. The effects of the misuse of Photoshop are taking a serious toll on society in a multitude of ways.

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.

Photoshop is an image editing software created by Adobe. Photoshop is one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to resize, crop and correct colour on digital

Manipulation of photography is nearly as old as photography itself, with early photographs captured on glass and tin plates manipulated in the darkroom. However, in the past two decades, digital photo editing software such as photoshop and its ilk have become increasingly ubiquitous, making photo editing more accessible and bringing it to the masses. This has had an enormous impact on the field of photography, sparking debates over the core nature of photography, and completely changing how photography is conducted and used in the media. In particular, advertising and photojournalism have made extensive use of digital editing of photographs, modifying images to fit their messages. This paper will explore how the rise of digital photo editing

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.

For my critical investigation I will be investigating how and why both print and e-media manipulate images to alter the look of their subjects and how this can impact on society. I will address the issues surrounding Photoshop manipulation and look at both the positives and negatives with regards to how this is used in the media.

Nowadays it’s easy to forget the impact that digital imaging has had on society as we are so use to its benefits. Digital Imaging has done some amazing things, such as bring the ability to capture still and moving images of everyday life to iconic moments such as the moon landing. We also have the ability to create digital illustrations to provide insight, to persuade and to provoke thought.