Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

By the use of Adobe's Photoshop software they can turn pictures of celebrities and models into a whole new them. The software lets you change many things on a picture such as removing pimples, shedding weight, and brighten up your skin. People believe this is a problem and that it may cause "UNREALISTIC" goals of how your body should look. Therefore, Dr.Farid and Eric Kee are trying to invent a tool to show off how much fashion and beauty photos have been tainted from a scale of 1 to 5. They got interested in this category because they wanted to research the images from advertisements and fashion magazines. They believe that these images lead up to situations such as eating disorders, anxiety about body image mostly in young women. Dr.Farid and Eric Kee is mainly trying to determine how much the face and the body of the person in the photo was changed and peoples outlooks or opinions on them. So they used before and after photos and made different people rate how much different it looks on the scale from one to five. They believe this would help stop the changes in pictures.

Well I do believe that having pictures of super skinny models and overly perfect images of women cause eating disorders and low self esteem. Because having women on T.V, magazines , and even the internet, where most people spend there day at, may cause people to think that that is the way they’re suppose to look since the girls that look like that are on T.V. and are pretty and get a lot of attention. Having these images, I think makes girls yearn for the attention they have which may cause low self-esteem because it makes them they are not enough or attracted enough. In addition, I do think the images should be labeled to inform people who are reading that the person in the picture really does not look that way.