Why Photoshop Needs To Change

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Why Photoshop Needs to Change
Did you know, according to Paige Woldt’s slideshow, 99% of photos in ads and magazines have been retouched by photoshop similar photographic enhancements? Photoshop is an Adobe software used to edit images.. The use of photoshop to make people look perfect is wrong. When people look at these magazines with photoshopped images they think that this is what they're supposed to look like.
However, photoshop itself is not a bad thing. As Ms. Summers says in Don’t let Photoshop Make You Feel Bad “Altering images has been a standard practice for centuries. Photoshop allows photographers to create and take amazing pictures, without needing a big budget. Say a photographer wants to take a picture of someone lying on a

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