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The airbrushing stuff isn’t so bad but the body morphing is awful for what is percieved as “beautiful”

The photo-shopped pictures don’t bother me that much because I KNOW it is an unrealistic portrayal of women.  I look around and see many real women who are gorgeous and strong, kind and loving.  I don’t need a photo-shopped picture of a celebrity to be my role model.  For the most part, I think the removal of blemishes and color correcting is perfectly fine, but why do these people feel that the subject’s body needs to be thinner, or their breasts need to be lifted, etc?

No, it doesn’t bother me. I think the people being photoshopped should have a choice, and if they;re up for having people think their body is some way it isn’t; well… good on them. 

i understand why people photo shop and I think if its just that hats good t. i think we all want to look our best in pictures but thats not always how they turn out ., thats good but sometimes people take it to an extreme ya know one day its  this and the next they want plastic surgery .. i believe we all shuld look at the beauty within us not on the outside apperance

wow Gwen, esp her skin, looks AWFUL in that pic, which prooves a lil photoshop never hurts anyone, as long as we realize the pics are photoshopped, so as to not aspire to something impossible

I always tell myself, (blank) celebrity looks amazing because :she dedicated most of her time to working out, has special healthy meals prepared for her, has professional hair/makeup artist and stylist, is wearing spanx and sucking it in, and the picture’s been photoshopped=voila, instant non-affected self esteem/image

A little Photoshop doesn’t bother me. A lot of Photoshop does.

Depends, artistic photoshop doesn’t bother me but ‘to be more *cough* beautiful photoshop bothers me! What is wrong with being natural, she looks fine on the left and I have seen to many people with eating disorders and unrealistic expectations of what a woman ‘should look like’ to not be bothered by it.

If somebody wants photoshopping could they not put a note on so young girls know it is not the real thing?
Well that’s my humble opinion anyway.

depends on the type of photoshopping it is.  photoshop can change lighting and red eye and stuff like that.  i just have a problem with making someone look “beautiful”  through body morphing….

As a photographer, I love Photoshop and Photoshopped images. And clients do too. If I were paying someone to take my picture, I wouldn’t be very happy to get a “finished product” where I look bad. If I were going to be on a magazine cover (which obviously would never happen, but this is hypothetical), they had BETTER edit the photo! Otherwise, I would be livid.

No photoshope doesn’t bother me. What is way worse is when you miss a family get-together where the entire family gets their picture taken, and your grandma tapes a picture of you onto that. That is way worse,  haha. Yeah I’m talking about you Grandma!!!

Photoshop doesn’t bother me that much, so long as it’s color tweaking and lighting changes.  Body morphing is where I have issues – and that can be over used.

Depends on what is being Photoshopped. Background changes, blemishes, red eye, lighting, color, etc., that’s all fine. Making someone thinner than they really are…not fine. There is nothing wrong with having some curves!

Yes, it does. The fact that we find gorgeous women “ugly” without photoshop is why. I’m fine with someone photoshopping a picture they took of a pond or enhancing backgrounds etc. but making already thin women look thinner or removing pores from a close up on the cover of a magazine is not okay and it sends a terrible message. 

Also “pretty girls always win”? What does that even mean?

it doesnt bother me at all… especially the skin softening or whatever you wanna call it. i dont understand why the feel the need to photoshop people skinnier though. these girls are already skinny and have nice bodies. but that’s my opinion and i dont actually care either way.

Frankly, most of the ones in this post could have looked like their photoshopped images naturally if their makeup had been heavier, lighting better, the angle different, etc. Color correction and maybe slimming a waist a bit because of a bad angle is fine because, in my opinion, it more corrects error in the photography than in the person. There’s some weird alien-like photoshop though, and that stuff is unhealthy.

They don’t bother me but I really do think that’s how people look.

I’d like to see stretch marks and spider veins on occasion just to prove that these people are actually human.

I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say that I’m offended.

This sums it up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vVUIYOmJM

@JanEdichotoMY@xanga -  I do the same.  I don’t do it to make myself feel better, but I realize that they put in a lot of work (too much work?) to look like that.  I’m not willing to eat three tiny meals a day & exercise at least an hour every day.  I’m a lazy American

(please don’t take my last sentence seriously)

I think it’s the fact that beauty sells that is bothering people, subconsciously. But either they don’t want to openly admit to the heart of the matter, the elephant in the room, or they’re just not thinking deeply enough about WHY something is truly bothering them. I’d have to say the lack of people discussing the real issues in our country, Beauty and Sex selling being one of them, bothers me more than all the fake, temporary, and useless things they bombard us with in media. 

@pinkmooncrystal@xanga - I completely agree with what you said.

The photos where Jessica Alba’s sweet ass and hipbones are reduced, and where they reduced Penelope Cruz’s ribcage are gross.  Real women have real skeletons.

yes :/

Bringing out the light and dark contrast in photos makes them look more vivid.
I noticed they did that in all the photos above. I like that.
All of the ones on the left look really beautiful already before photoshop.
Except for Gwen Stefani’s… : ( what the hell happened to her? Looks like she’s been smoking crack

It bothers me. It distorts reality.

whoa gwen…

it doesn’t bother me at all. it’s pretty to look at, but i know it’s fake so it doesn’t get to me. 

I think it’s just sad that apparently all photographers suck these days. A good photographer should be skilled enough to get good shots with the right camera settings, lenses, and angles, but now we have a bunch of crappy people with digital cameras taking lazy, crappy shots and not bothering to make them look good until they get on a computer screen.

covering blemishes and such is okay, but major enhancements on features are no good

Photoshopped celebs don’t bother me. I know and EXPECT them to be shopped.

What bothers me is when people on forums post SUPER shopped photos and everyone is oooing and aahhhing over how PERFECT they are and ignoring other, equally beautiful women who HAVEN’T shopped their photos.

I’d be ok with them photoshopping out blemishes or changing the lighting a little, but photoshopped photos aren’t just “touched up”, they’re distorted and impossibly perfect.  In that photo above, they removed part of Jessica Alba’s leg.  She’s gorgeous and in shape, and they removed her toned hamstring.  That’s not ok.  I think people understand that magazine photos are altered, but not the extent of it.  I personally don’t buy magazines, and I have adblock on computer and I still can’t really avoid the images that are everywhere.  I don’t think it’s good for anyone, men or women, to have this fake perfection be that ubiquitous.

Photoshop doesn’t bother me.

@Shadowrunner81@xanga - That has happened to me :/ silly grandma’s.

These are more airbrushed… fixing a misplaced hair, lightening it up, brightning, that kind of thing. and as a whole, no. that doesn’t bother me. It’s when they’re drastically shaping girls bodies, and altering them to look unrealistic and plastic, then setting it out there with the “HEY THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!” headline, and killing the self esteem of young girls. That’s whats disgusting about Photoshop.

Professional magazine photoshops don’t bother me.

It’s when my friends on Facebook have their mom photoshop their pictures.. that’s when it’s annoying. 

As a photography major, yes, photoshop is necessary for certain things. However, I don’t always agree with the way it’s used. I mostly use it for color balancing and vibrance/contrast enhancement. Also to remove pimples here and there, but that does not include the whole face by any means. I do not mess with body shape, or anything physical about the person. That’s against my beliefs about photography. I don’t think every picture has to be perfect every time. I believe mistakes sometimes prove to be the best things that happen in a photoshoot. You can never plan enough for the image you end up saying “OH! That’s the shot!” It always comes to you during the shoot. It’s the same concept with photoshot. Sometimes a person’s most interesting or attractive feature is an imperfection; a scar, a mole, a birth mark, a chubby face… whatever it is, that person deserves to be seen for who they are. The photographer needs to decide what they want from the image, and make it happen in camera… not in post. If they want the person’s face to look slimmer, they need to shoot from above. If they want the waist to look thinner, they need to shoot it from a slight angle. If they want the bust lifted… get the person a push-up bra. Photoshop is NOT necessary for those things… they can be done during the shoot, and still be “real”. But most people… they’re just too lazy for this today, or they don’t think ahead as much as they should. Your intent should always be clear, and your message and your stand on the photograph HAS to be there from the very beginning… otherwise photoshop will fix your mistakes, and of course that just looks like crap, most of the time.

xX Ame ~*~ Hana Xx