I chose this picture because it precisely prooves how people in magazines are not exactly what they seem. The use of photoshop has allowed magazines and newspapers to be able to manipulate the way people look in order to make them look more attractive and thus to sell more. By doing this they don't realize how it affects those who see these images, for it is the little girls that see these pictures in magazines that want to be skinny and pretty just like the model in the pictures. This picture of the news anchorwoman, Katie Curic, shows how the original photo, in the left, and the edited photo that appeared in Watch magazine on the right. Not only does photoshop change the quality of the photo, but it whitens Katie's teeth and reduces her weight by a significant 10 pounds. This manipulation is done to make her look better and so she better appeals to her fans, but by doing so it gives a false impression of what and who she really is and raises the standards on what women should look like. On YouTube i found a video that demonstrates this sort of manipulation of a model using photoshop, showing us that models truly do not look like this and to appreciate our own beauty.
I think she was way prettier before the photo manipulation. It's almost as if people feel like they have to manipulate every photo regardless of how the subject looks just because it's just a "normal" thing in the media.
Wow, that video really does show how the so-called perfection of magazine people is immposible to attain.
ReplyDeleteI like that video a lot! It really shows how extreme photoshopping is today
ReplyDeleteI think this video has a very important message - people need to realize and accept that nobody is actually perfect.
ReplyDeleteI like the post. I commented on my blog about how magazines alter photos to present the "thin-image". Moreover, the video was interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think she was way prettier before the photo manipulation. It's almost as if people feel like they have to manipulate every photo regardless of how the subject looks just because it's just a "normal" thing in the media.
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