Photoshop Persuasive Speech

At the end of the speech, I hope to persuade you to avoid using photo shop and find other methods to avoid using Photoshop on a picture of yourself or with someone else to make yourself look perfect.
Introduction:
How many of you take selfies then edit the picture and upload it to social media? Well I’m guessing the majority of you guys edit pictures. Most of you worry about getting likes especially, on instagram and if you do not get enough likes, your self-esteem lowers because it makes you feel that you’re ugly. It does not matter if you are editing your picture with someone or just by yourself. In other words you are photo shopping to look better in the picture because the truth is everyone feels insecure about themselves even famous people
do. People can photo shop their picture from their phone, computer, and even tablets. The result is that people are overusing photo shop to the point where you can tell instead they should find other ways to make their picture better and avoid using Photoshop.
Central Idea: Today, the majority of people are using photo shop to make them self’s look better in the picture. In reality they are causing harm to them self’s, especially among teenagers. Due to advertisements using photo shop on models is affecting many people especially teenage girls and older women because that’s their intended target.
Preview:
The majority of the people need to stop over using photo shop in order to make them self’s look like models or anyone from advertisements because it is not real.
Body:
I. What is Photoshop exactly?
A. What is Photoshop actually used for?
1. Photoshop is a photo editing software that can be downloaded to make your pictures better. It allows you to crop, resize, and add or remove color on any photo you feel looks horrible. Another thing it lets you is remove anything from the body. For example, you can remove stretch marks, birth marks, and anything you do not like from your body on the pictures you feel insecure.
2. According to Meaghan’s article on “Model Blasts the Company that Slimmed Her Body with Photoshop”, Photoshop is a tool to make girls slim and body smooth to look just like Barbie.
3.
You do not have to use Photoshop in order to make your picture look perfect. Instead you can use other apps and download on cell phones or tablet that is basic. For example, you can use pics art but there are so many on the app store.
B. Photoshop is mostly used by photographers, magazines, and advertisements who over use it to much especially on models.
1. Every advertisement and magazines aim for their models to look like a Barbie in order to sell their products. According to Shaun’s Glamour magazine article, states that, “On women I most often see wrinkles erased, skin smoothed, body fat trimmed and boobs made bigger or more gravity-defying,” but, “For men it’s under eye bags, bigger biceps, a more muscular chest and taking off weight so they look leaner”(Dreisbach).
2. Even if the model is already beautiful they make adjustments to make them look even more beautiful.
3. On New York Times article, “Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell” notes that, “Fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with Barbie”.
C. The most common companies that are known for photo shopping is American eagle, teen magazine, but there is many
more.
1. This advertisement affects the majority of the people and their target is mostly towards girls that’s why people are supporting Truth in Advertising Act and starting a pledge for companies to follow (Vaynshteyn).
2. Amy Odell Teen Vogue magazine article states, that they are aiming for big companies to pledge in order to stop photo shopping.
3. Although most of the teenage girls feel that they need to look just like the model which lowers their self-esteem.
4.
According to Gina article states that, “teenage girls are more afraid of gaining weight than getting cancer, losing their parents, or nuclear war.”
5. Girls do not really care about their health because all they care about is their body image. Most of those girls have eating disorders and are anorexic.
II. More and more people use Photoshop in order to make their pictures look better because they want to look exactly like the people in magazines and advertisements.
A. They do not know that photo shopping is harming them. It makes them go on diets and do crazy things to their body. Some people even get plastic surgery just to get their dream body.
B. Some people even Photoshop pictures of them with celebrities which you can really tell.
C. Most of the people who Photoshop are usually called fake and even make fun of them by spreading the picture to their friends.
D. Usually society prefers people who show off their natural beauty and do not have to have hid their insecurities.
E. Here are some tips for you to avoid using Photoshop on any of your pictures.
1. Before you take a picture find a good spot where there is good lighting. For example, take the picture outside where the sun is bright or even the bathroom which the majority of people take their selfies. Do not take it where it is kind of dark because then people will not see your
beauty.
2. Take a picture of your good side so you do not have to worry about editing your face to take off all your birth marks or scars.
3. Place your camera or phone on stable position with or tripod or something that will hold it and not move
4. The last tip is posing at an angle but no facial expression. For example, you can pose with your hand on your hip.
III. In conclusion, before taking a selfie or picture with someone avoid Photoshop because you may never know who is making fun of your picture or even worse, calling you fake .Do not over use Photoshop and consider using a basic photo editor. Instead find a good lighting spot, use s stable camera, and pose at a good angle. The pictures are the ones who show off their real beauty to the world and are not afraid to show their body marks or scars.