As photoshop is used to digitally alter almost every image you see in the media, I guess it isn't so surprising that you see some strange looking images, after all digitally altering the photo makes the image of the person or thing no longer accurate to real life. While photoshop can be used to touch up a photo and make it supposedly perfect and beautiful, upon close inspection you can almost always know whether or n0t the picture has been tampered with or if it is natural.

Upon looking at the website http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/, I came
across a picture that looked very strange. If you look closely at the image you can see that the boy appears to not have a lower body. The lower part of the boy's body seems to be cut off or has disappeared somewhere.

It definitely bothers me that companies are crossing the line with excessive alterations and manipulations to their images. What will this do to our perception of beauty? What will happen to us if we strive to become something that isn't physically possible? That is why so many young people are being negatively affected by the media, they see something and they automatically think must look like that because their role model or favourite celebrity looks like that, but in reality their role model's or favourite celebrity's body has been altered to look a certain way with photoshop.

I sincerely hope that the new trend of normal people being featured in the media without an manipulations or alterations sticks. The media may take a long time to change their ways, as they want everything to look perfect and have been using photoshop for manipulation for a while now, but the future looks bright, as more and more people and celebrities are becoming aware of the media's ways.

Finally, if I ever do get to see a magazine in the future featuring normal and non-photoshopped people in it, I would think that it would be a little weird, since I am so used to photoshopped images in magazines. However, it may be better to know that these people are real, and that our perception of beauty would no longer be of something fake.


1 comments:

I agree that the media does too much photoshopping, which inevitably distorts our image of beauty. It would be a large step for media to stop using alter pictures and feature only a specific type of model. Yes, it might be weird to see a magazine with no photoshopped images, but it will be the start of a new beginning. A better beginning with real rainbows, flowers, and trees, not a green screen with photoshopped scenery. Finally, I laugh at the picture with the boy who has no lower body. He will have some digestive problems and more. Photoshop has gone a bit to far.

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