It’s not real. It’s artificial. Photoshop has an ever lasting effect, they’re what stays in a person’s mind, real or not. A fake image that influences what we call “beauty”. A society that’s exposed to the many advertisements that uses manipulative body images to sell yet they’re unreal. Many people don’t even notice what’s real and what’s artificial in these photos. Photoshop shouldn’t be argued if it is good or bad since it results in people suffering from low self-esteem, poor body images and to some extremity, eating disorders. Having low self-esteem caused by photoshop, makes girls feel like they have to achieve the ideal body that the picture portrays. Along with low self-esteem, depression can actually arise due to this. In fact, “32.21% of suicide rates come from low self-esteem alone
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With makeup, people can see that it’s there with their bare eyes, but with photoshop you don’t know what is real. When seeing an advertisement the “retouched photos set an unrealistic bar for suggestible young girls, and therefore cry out to be exposed” (Fortini). Anybody is able to use makeup to make themselves pretty, but with photoshop you’re essentially changing the whole body and turning it into a new person. It’s not healthy for this to be shown to young girls who will believe anything they see. In an article I read by Debra Bass she said “yes, body image is a serious concern for young girls. But is anyone anywhere really under the impression that any publicity photo is a raw image?” (Debra Bass). Most people do know that images in magazines are retouched but insecurities develop very young, as little to the age of three. At the age of three children don’t know any better and believe that the picture is normal. It changes what they think is beautiful and socially accepted in the
With makeup, people can see that it’s there with their bare eyes, but with photoshop you don’t know what is real. When seeing an advertisement the “retouched photos set an unrealistic bar for suggestible young girls, and therefore cry out to be exposed” (Fortini). Anybody is able to use makeup to make themselves pretty, but with photoshop you’re essentially changing the whole body and turning it into a new person. It’s not healthy for this to be shown to young girls who will believe anything they see. In an article I read by Debra Bass she said “yes, body image is a serious concern for young girls. But is anyone anywhere really under the impression that any publicity photo is a raw image?” (Debra Bass). Most people do know that images in magazines are retouched but insecurities develop very young, as little to the age of three. At the age of three children don’t know any better and believe that the picture is normal. It changes what they think is beautiful and socially accepted in the