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Unrealistic Beauty Standards
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PHOTOSHOP
WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE?
KYLIE I
PHOTOSHOP
Photoshop is a program which enables users to manipulate and adjust images to their liking. Users are able to change images to convey a message, or for personal purposes. It makes editing easy and efficient.
2018
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In this day and age, Photoshop is used to create humorous memes, enhance beauty and colours in photographs and remove blemishes. It is also used to make women, often celebrity role models, look thinner and their skin look smoother than it actually is. Where do we draw the line?
EXAMPLES
UNREALISTIC BEAUTY STANDARDS
BEAUTY STANDARDS
Photoshopping images gives girls, especially those in the adolescent stages, a sense of insecurity and dissatisfaction about their own identity. The images essentially provide an unrealistic goal as well as a fake role model for what young girls aim to be like.
A REAL LIFE STORY
STACEY'S STORY
Stacey, 28, had suffered with self-esteem issues since she was a teenager. Initially, she joined Instagram in order to connect and hopefully inspire with others doing the same fitness program as she was. But as she spent more time on the social media app, she was overwhelmed with picture-perfect Instagram models which ultimately caused her self-esteem to plummet.
After she realised the images she saw were photoshopped, she was shocked. They had provided her with a false view of reality and manipulated her into thinking down on herself. After unfollowing the photoshopped Instagram models, Stacey began to feel better about herself.
Photoshopped images make us feel like we aren’t good enough if we don’t look like what the pictures show, even though the pictures are fake.
SKIN TONES
As well as changing the shape of bodies, photoshop can be used to change someone's skin tone. Since racial discrimination is so prominent in today's society, this proves to be a huge problem.
WHITEWASHING
WHITEWASHING
Whitewashing occurs in photography, advertisements, the media, and the fashion industry. It is when one's skin colour is digitally edited to appear whiter; falsely displaying whiter skin as the ideal and only beautiful skin tone. More and more celebrities have been whitewashed by photo editors on well-known magazine covers and this has stirred a major debate among citizens. These magazines are sold in countless stores around the globe, and the effect it can have on people of colour, especially because white-washed images are on the front cover, is devastating.
EXAMPLES
HUMOUR
Photoshop is an application capable of many different things. One of which is creating humorous images by exaggerating certain features on an animal, person or cartoon. Usually, these edited images are posted online and people all over the world are able to view them immediately.
THE DOWNSIDE
CYBER-BULLYING
While Photoshop can be used to make people laugh, it can also be used to harm others by those with ill intentions. For example, someone could take a photo of someone else without their permission and edit it in order to make fun of the person. Once that photo is posted on a public platform, things could escalate very quickly. The victim could end up being laughed at by thousands of strangers on the internet, and feel absolutely terrible about themselves.
PHOTOSHOP: YES OR NO?
CONCLUSION
Although Photoshop does have many productive uses like enhancing photographs and creating funny content, it ultimately plays a big part in the self-esteem issues that young girls face today. It should no longer be used to produce "picture perfect" models or to make fun of someone else.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://zoeereed.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/photoshop-creating-unrealistic-standards-for-the-unattainable-beauty/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4557690/Instagrammer-shares-Photoshop-pictures.html
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/102808803968368452/
https://www.boredpanda.com/how-photographers-photoshop-their-images-landscape-photography-peter-stewart/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://www.boredpanda.com/fake-photoshopped-social-media-images-kanahoooo-china/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02/19/8-cases-where-a-black-celebrity-was-whitewashed-for-a-magazine-cover-or-ad-campaign/2/