Photoshopping
Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds
Here is the link: http://www.beautyredefined.net/photoshopping-altering-images-and-our-minds/
In the article “Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds”, the editors explain how photoshopping and image manipulation has become “one of them main strategies used to reinforce and normalize a distorted idea of ‘average’” within magazines, advertisements, and other forms of media. Although the models in these fashion and celebrity magazines are not as fit in real life as they appear on paper, media has made it seem that way. Blemishes, pimples, cellulite, with a touch of a few clicks, can be gone in an instant. These alterations of photographs can be seen in Seventeen, Self, and Ralph Lauren magazine just to name a few.
My favorite quote from the article is,” Digitally slimming women’s bodies, adding or exaggerating a “thigh gap,” and removing signs of life like pores, gray hairs, and wrinkles aren’t just casual decisions based on aesthetic preferences of a few editors — they are profit-driven decisions to create false ideals for females to seek after in hopes of someday attaining.” I like this quote because it basically summarizes the reason why magazines alter images. They alter images in order to satisfy the public who read their media. It’s not their fault that they create the “ideal” image of woman, but the public who accept these images as the sexy, acceptable, image of a woman. People nowadays are obsessed with slim women with “thigh gaps” that we are no longer accepting of all body types. This forces women and men into insecurity and spending thousands on body modifications.
I really like this article because it showcases how society thinks. Forms of media have brainwashed people into wanting the ideal body type. Through creating these images, magazines force people into thinking that one body type is the only acceptable body type. As a result, this has a very detrimental psychological impact on people’s minds.
Here is the link: http://www.beautyredefined.net/photoshopping-altering-images-and-our-minds/
In the article “Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds”, the editors explain how photoshopping and image manipulation has become “one of them main strategies used to reinforce and normalize a distorted idea of ‘average’” within magazines, advertisements, and other forms of media. Although the models in these fashion and celebrity magazines are not as fit in real life as they appear on paper, media has made it seem that way. Blemishes, pimples, cellulite, with a touch of a few clicks, can be gone in an instant. These alterations of photographs can be seen in Seventeen, Self, and Ralph Lauren magazine just to name a few.
My favorite quote from the article is,” Digitally slimming women’s bodies, adding or exaggerating a “thigh gap,” and removing signs of life like pores, gray hairs, and wrinkles aren’t just casual decisions based on aesthetic preferences of a few editors — they are profit-driven decisions to create false ideals for females to seek after in hopes of someday attaining.” I like this quote because it basically summarizes the reason why magazines alter images. They alter images in order to satisfy the public who read their media. It’s not their fault that they create the “ideal” image of woman, but the public who accept these images as the sexy, acceptable, image of a woman. People nowadays are obsessed with slim women with “thigh gaps” that we are no longer accepting of all body types. This forces women and men into insecurity and spending thousands on body modifications.
I really like this article because it showcases how society thinks. Forms of media have brainwashed people into wanting the ideal body type. Through creating these images, magazines force people into thinking that one body type is the only acceptable body type. As a result, this has a very detrimental psychological impact on people’s minds.