Photo Editing

Have you ever looked at a picture on the cover of a magazine and said to yourself, "Wow, he/she looks amazing! I want to look that good!" Then, as you look at yourself in the mirror you study all the "imperfections" you possess that the person on that magazine didn't have, and you criticise yourself for them? Well, you're not alone. The problem here is not only the harm you do by negatively comparing yourself with another, but it's also that you're comparing yourself to a digital creation, not even a real person! As difficult as it may be to accept, the people you see in these magazines usually don't look a whole lot like the way they appear in real life. Such is the deception of hours of make-up, hours of hair styling, and hours of photo editing. Check out the following example...

This photo of Faith Hill changed more than 15 things about her including thinning her arm, face, and body, enlarging her eyes, volumizing her hair, clearing away her wrinkles, and taking out her color bone.

Everyday, we are bombarded by images of thin celebrities and muscular athletes that create a standard of beauty and perfection in our society. But how real are these photos? It has been reported that 99% of these pictures we see are photoshopped and altered in some way. Unfortunately, because of this distortion of imagery, our views of beauty have become distorted as well.

Digitally altering images creates an unrealistic standard to achieve in our society. Even when we know that these images are altered, do we realize just how much they are modified? A few years ago Dove Beauty created a campaign to address how these images of beauty we see every day are actually created. The video they presented shows the lengthy and extreme measures photo editors take to create the “beautiful” images we see today. Check it out HERE.

So, what can we take from this? We can be more aware—we can use a more critical eye when we see these messages. We can take charge and not let our lives be dictated by images that are altered and tweaked to “perfection”. We can talk to our friends and family about this topic and learn to recognize that advertising is setting unrealistic standards in their images. We can take a stand! If these models, celebrities, and athletes can't even attain these figures, how can we expect ourselves to?
 
Who is speaking out about photo editing?!

~Kate Winslet

When British GQ published a photo-shopped image of Kate Winslet, she issued a statement saying they altered the image without her con-sent saying “I don’t look like that and more importantly I don’t desire to look like that. I can tell you that they have reduced the size of my legs by a third.”

~Andy Roddick

(Think it's just a female problem?) Unknown to Andy Roddick, all of a sudden he had huge arms and a birth mark that disappeared (see photo to the right). Apparently Men’s Fitness wanted to bulk him up without the workout, so they placed his head on an entirely different body. Article HERE.

~Jennifer Hudson

When photos of Jennifer were photoshopped she posed a fabulous question “Did I not just prove that talent is enough if I’ve made it this far?” Read the whole article HERE.

Check out Beauty Redefined’s article on photoshopping HERE.

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