Photoshop Impacts Future Generations

Hi Tuyen, good job on rhetorical analysis since you did points out many significant points of the issue presented in the documentary Miss Representation. I agree with you that “Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media portrays women in society simply through the value of women’s look” based on the statistics and her persuasive evidence. Photoshop is mostly used to retouch models’ figure in advertisements in order to bring perfect female images to the public. That the media’s extreme focus on how a girl or a woman should look like creates a misleading thought that women’s value is portrayed by their outward appearance. It is absolutely inaccurate since advertisers just tend to manipulate consuming behaviors;

Everyday females are exposed to how media views the female body, whether in a work place, television ads, and magazines. Women tend to judge themselves on how they look just to make sure there keeping up with what society see as an idyllic women, when women are exposed to this idea that they have to keep a perfect image just to keep up with media, it teaches women that they do not have the right look because they feel as if they don’t add up to societies expectations of what women should look like, it makes them thing there not acceptable to society. This can cause huge impacts on a women self-appearance and self-respect dramatically. Women who become obsessed about their body image can be at high risk of developing anorexia or already have

Photoshop and the “corrective” trend are impacting society so much that celebrities themselves are trying to move away from that trend. Businesses want to portray the perfect picture; celebrities, especially women, want to be portrayed as imperfect. This has caused a clash between the need of businesses and the willingness of celebrities. The result is a parallel trend promoted by some celebrities in which they take pictures of themselves without photoshop and without makeup. This new trend is to reflect to society that

In today’s modern culture, almost all forms of popular media play a significant role in bombarding young people, particularly young females, with what happens to be society’s idea of the “ideal body”. This ideal is displayed all throughout different media platforms such as magazine adds, television and social media – the idea of feminine beauty being strictly a flawless thin model. The images the media displays send a distinct message that in order to be beautiful you must look a certain way. This ideal creates and puts pressure on the young female population viewing these images to attempt and be obsessed with obtaining this “ideal body”. In the process of doing so this unrealistic image causes body dissatisfaction, lack of self-confidence

For women, advertisements focus on beauty and weight. Models are young and unusually thin with large breasts. This body image is photoshopped because no one can ever have those body measurements. However, this is what society expects women to look like. When women are exposed to these images every day, they begin to aspire to look like the models in the advertisements.

“Faking Beauty: Photoshopping Sends Unhealthy Message to America 's Youth, AMA Says.” ABC News, 29 June 2011, abcnews.go.com/Health/faking-beauty-photoshopping-unhealthy-americas-youth-ama/story?id=13960394. “Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity.” Purushu Arie, 22 Feb. 2016, purushu.com/2016/02/hegemonic-masculinity-and-emphasized-femininity.html. Marks, Hallie.

For almost a century, advertisers have appealed to and or contributed to women's insecurities in hopes of being able to sell them the product. An example of this is in 2009, an Olay ad for its ‘Definity Eye Cream’ showed a former model who was 62 years old, looking wrinkle-free and a whole lot younger than her age after using this Olay beauty product. Turns out the ads were retouched. Digitally altered spots were made in the ad, creating not only a bad misrepresentation of Olay products, but the ad's potentially gave a negative impact on people's body images(Sweney).

Photoshop is taking a photo and morphing it to look anyway you want. Photographers may take a modles photo and make there skin better, hair longer, and stomach flatter. In the end we see the photo of an impossibly perfect looking person and not anyone real. The person we see on magazines and online is an impossible ideal image to be like. In the video “Standard Of Beauty & Photoshop | Model Before and

Modern advertisements in the media show a single definition of beauty, which is typically impossible to achieve by the average person. When a child grows up around these pictures of what beauty is they start to believe that these pictures and people are normal and are what everyone should look like. When this child grows up and realizes that they do not look like the people they see in magazines and on TV they begin to believe that they look wrong and that they are not beautiful. This can lead to many issues such as eating disorders and depression.

A major issue that is raised in the documentary is why girls feel the need to be so thin and why this mentality escalates to the point of starvation. One woman said that “repeated exposure of a particular image, teaches you to like that particular image.” The example that went along with this statement was a billboard of the girls in the TV show Friends. The billboard was captioned “Cute Anorexic Chicks.” This billboard was most likely seen by thousands of people a day, even the same people multiple times in a week.

But it is made flawed by our aggressive approach. But people also forget that it is important to be the best version of ourselves and not of somebody else. This evident when we set fitness goals in comparison to others which is unrealistic and unfair to us. This is also the main reason why Photoshop is so unethical because it shows us unrealistic body images of someone else. It neither celebrates perfection or imperfection because it does not represent any of these two concepts.

The implications of this is that today, a lot of women have eating disorders (such as: bulimia and anorexia) and/or decide to do cosmetic surgeries in order to try and achieve a standard of beauty that has been implanted through being overly exposed to the images on the internet, but who can blame them when they are so easily accessible and they are constantly bombarded with these

The media has such an influence on women that their mental perception of themselves can become distorted. Many of them see the pictures in magazines and social media and believe that they need to look like what they see to be counted as beautiful. The problem with this is that all the pictures they are looking at are photoshopped or retouched to perfection. This makes it impossible for girls to healthily look like these ideals because only 5% of the female population in America naturally comes close to portraying these “ ideal” body types. This highly affects females ideas of themselves and can lead to them using unsafe methods of weight control behaviors.

A Traumatizing Impact on Women Within Society When a young, female girl is growing up, she encounters a variety of advertisements, entertainment, commercials, and dolls. What she does not know is that society will have an impact on her image when she gets older. Her inspiration will be drawn towards famous celebrities who are portrayed as the perfect woman. Though the young girl does not pay attention to the fact that those women are mostly photoshopped or edited.

Has people's use of Photoshop gone too far? Is altering photos to make people unrealistically skinny a good idea? For years, many photos in magazines, advertisements, etc. have been altered, making models and celebrities blemish free and thin. But in some cases of retouched photos the outcome can be horrific, making the person very unprofessional and disturbing. But making models thinner than they actually are can have bad effects on the public.