"Smile and Say ‘No Photoshop’ "

The main points of the article were that too many magazines are editing photos to look too unrealistic. They make celebrities look one way in one magazine then another way in a different magazine. That’s how you can tell how much they can really do with photo editing programs. Some photographers want to stop this practice of editing photos too unrealistically. They want more “real” photos. Most people don’t want to see some girl who is too thin; especially when it’s not real. People want to see what they really look like, not what they look like edited and photoshopped. I agree with the idea of this article. I think that photographers, magazines, and photo editors should cut down and maybe even eventually eliminate the use of photo editing. Especially since most magazines use it to make the people look unrealistically beautiful. People are striving to look like the people they see in magazines, and if it’s unattainable and fake it can cause some serious problems. For example, you edit a photo and make someone look thinner than they really are for a magazine. Some girl is going to see that and think that’s what she has to look like and she’s going to do whatever she can to look like that. It can indirectly, or directly, causes eating disorders. That may be extreme, but it does happen. I think that Photoshop should be used to edit minor things. For example, maybe you want to look a little tanner, or get rid of the pimple, or make your skin look a little softer. I think that is okay. But when you do it to make people look very unrealistic I don’t think that’s right. People reading magazines strive to look like celebrities do in magazines, if you don’t edit them too much they can look like them. But when you make and edit celebrities look too beautiful or unrealistic, its just not good. Therefore, I believe that using Photoshop to edit little things is okay, but correcting a lot of things is not okay.