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Photo retouching makes some people (mostly the female populatin) think they are fat and ugly, just because the ones in the magazines and movies are flawless, but they don’t relies that it is all fabricated. It’s all retouched in Photoshop to make it better to look at (to some people).
This causes some people to find ways to get their bodies to look like ‘there’s’. They start adapting to eating disorders and some even starve themselves. Some may get to how the FAKE picture was, but they still continue to hurt them self.
Photo retouching also causes people to adapt to the way the fake people look and then criticize how real people look. They get so used to how the fake people look they don’t want to see anything else. Photo retouching has made life harder for sooo many people to live through their everyday lives. It started with actors and actresses. They made the bar of looking good higher than their own appearance.
Adverts are Photoshoped to make the advertisements more appealing to the eye, so more people will buy them thinking if they use the product they will look like the girl or guy on the photo.
“Even I don’t look like Cindy Crawford in the morning.”
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You have some very interesting points. I like how you mentioned the fab-world.It’s so true that the actors, actresses and models nowadays gain fame because of how they look.They use Photoshop to enhance body parts and smoothen their skin…etc…But when you look at them in real life…it’s almost totally the opposite right?
But actually, we shouldn’t blame the celebrities.
I know that some of them were FORCED by magazines to do it because they want to attract readers and fans.
Regarding the advertisements, I agree with you that they are completely misleading their customers. Well, we can’t really do anything about it but to make sure that the products people aim to buy are qualified enough, they should rely on advertisements that include interviews with customers and scientific proofs. Not just look at a picture and decide whether they should buy the product or not.
It’s true… All we see in magazines are beautiful people and we question why we don’t look like them. But I think people in magazines would get more prettier as time passes because the company has to sell their products to the people by showing prettier people. I think it’s very important that people know models and actresses in the magazines “fake.”