- What were the main points of the article?
- Do you agree with the general push or overall idea(s) of the article?
- When should Photoshop be/not be used to alter a photograph
The main points of this article was about how magazines everywhere are starting to use photoshop to a new level. They talked about magazines that made people look completely different and how obvious some of the things they did to the pictures were. After some magazines were published they could even find huge mistakes that were made when the photoshop was done to the pictures, in one it showed Jessica Simpson with just one hip. They are trying to get out the point that by using so much photoshop and making celebrities look so unreal that it is providing people all over the world with a completely false look that is almsot impossible to attain. Even though there are actors and actresses who can realize how different the pictures of themselves look they do not always come forward with the issues because a lot of their editors may have asked for certain things to be taken out of the picture in the first place. They are really trying to stress the importance of this issue and how crazy some of it is. People change pictures with photoshop and publish them throughout magazines and ads which give people a completely false image to live up to and makes many stress to be perfect when in all reality those pictures are not completely real.
I completely agree with the writer of this article. I can understand wanting to maybe edit a simple little pimple out of the picture but the extent to which some of the magazines are going in ridiculous. I do not believe that an editor should be able to cut pounds off of a celebrity or anyone just to make them seem so perfect. I also think that the general push of this article is correct in talking about times when people did not have the ability to do all of this editing and now once they figure it out they go completely crazy with it and take things too far. I agree with how the writer or writers of this article talk about how different people can look on covers of magazines because showing those pictures to someone with a professional look on it or with no professional ability at all you can clearly see how different each picture looks from the rest.I think that this article makes great points and i not only think everyone should agree with it, i think that the celebrities who are having this done to their pictures and letting it happen should really start to step up and say something because there is nothing good about a fake person.
I think that photoshop should be used for legitimate reasons. I think that simple editing to make the light on the face of a person better or to take out a simple pimple or even just to brighten up the mood of the picture. I also think you should use photoshop for a purpose of trying to point something out. For example in the article it said they took a gorgeous women and made her over weight, they were using the power of photoshop to make a point. I do not think photoshop should be used to try and make someone look slimmer or to drastically change the appearance of a face. I think that using photoshop to the extent where you can see a complete difference without question is too much editing and should not be able to be published like it is.
