Media Influence On Photoshotypes

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The media are using Photoshop to make the celebrities look perfect, so they can make more money by making their magazine more attractive. In my opinion, Photoshop as a bad influence and can hurt teenager’s self-esteem. They can feel bad about how they feel and want to change themselves to be more like the Photoshop people, even if it is not real.

The teenagers can feel bad about how they are.
There is a lot of girls who compare themselves with the people in the magazines and a lot of these girls feel bad about their look. For example, a young girl sees a lot of mannequins who look perfect in a magazine and she wants to be like them, she’s comparing herself with those perfect girls and she feels bad about her body image. Basically, the Photoshop

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