Achieving Perfection: How PhotoShop Creates Illusion of Perfect Beauty in Celebrities’ Photographs
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 18, 2009
Saturday morning, and I desperately needed a break from Obama destroying our country and stealing our liberties.
While browsing through YouTube, I found this fascinating video on how magazines use PhotoShop to enhance and alter photos of celebrities and fashion models, in the pursuit of the unattainable: “perfect beauty.”
This video is important for young women to watch, as so many of them are filled with self-loathing and insecurities about how they look when compared to women in magazine photos. These women in magazines, these actresses and models, are no more perfect than anyone else. They have laugh lines, sun spots, blemishes, wrinkles, less-than-perfect teeth, body fat, stretch marks. But they have the help of computer technology to create the illusion in photos. Or, to create “the lie,” which is far more accurate.
So many young women have a poor self image, and this video reveals how most photos are manipulated.
Additional reading:
Healthy Urban Kitchen: TV Reality Shows Destroy Women’s Body Image and Confidence
Beauty on Watch!: Poor Body Image: Modern Day Epidemic
Taylor490′s Blog: Media and Self-Image
Medical Mom: Size Matters
Shrink Rap: Media influence on women’s body image
1WriteWay: Fat
Pixcetera: Picture Perfect
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I was pleased to see American Girl magazine (for girls age 8-12) do a 2 page spread on photoshopping in magazines. It showed how they took an everyday girl and transformed the photo by changing hair color, lengthening legs/neck/body, slimming the waist and erasing tan lines. The message — no such thing as a perfect body!
Thanks for sharing that information, Becbeq. I’m a former Girl Scout leader and Sunday School teacher. It has always been a passion of mine to help young women reach into themselves to find their identity, develop their talents, seek knowledge and spiritual guidance, and embrace themselves for themselves… to develop a sense of worth and not be influenced by the phoniness of mass media and peer approval. It’s an uphill battle. Media photo alterations and depictions of “perfect women” undermines these poor girls’ efforts – while I don’t think fraud is necessarily intended, the fraud does indeed pummel impressionable young women who aren’t equipped with the knowledge of recognizing it as fraud. I’m glad American Girl magazine has joined in to expose the fairy tale. Young regular women aren’t being vain, but they do see a society that repeatedly bestows elevated value on those who measure up to impossible standards of beauty, and measures success by that supposed beauty… even if that “beauty” is manufactured with computer software.
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Beauty is skin deep and is a combination for looks and your character traits like humility, truthfulness, willingness to help others, a smiling nature, the kindness you have for others, the love you share. Most of the times it is these traits that make you more beautiful than your figure or features.