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Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 1:48 AM

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Photo editing -how much is too much?

The fashion industry is known for airbrushing photosof models, sometimes to extreme disproportions. How much digital photo editing is too much?

Here is the link for the article: http://www.digitalone.com.sg/features/article/11161/1

I recently found this article on the Internet and I would like to share it with you all, because I think that this issue concerns many of us, especially in a technology-savvy 21st century. With the rise of the use in social networking sites, like Facebook or Blogger, it is common for many of us to upload our photos online. And with photo editing softwares, like Adobe Photoshop easily accessible, how many of us do edit our photos before we upload it?

Why is photo-editing a problem?

Some of you all may think that photo editing isn’t much of a problem because the photos belong to us and the photos are normally for personal use, with only friends and families viewing it.

It is also human nature that makes most of us wanting to look beautiful; photo editing does exactly this by enhancing the image, who doesn’t want their photos to look nice?

Personally, I feel that editing photos to look photogenic is acceptable as long as we don’t go overboard and we end up looking like a different person from how we really look. It is not such a good thing to look too beautiful in photos than in real life, because when others see you on the streets, they would get a surprise, and it wouldn’t be a pleasant surprise, right?

However, photo editing done by the media poses a serious implication to the public because media is part of our everyday life, media is all around us, in television, advertisements and newspaper. Media strongly influenced our views and they set our standards of what is deemed as beautiful or attractive which caused the public to aspire to be like the “perfect models” we see. This is not a healthy image being portrayed, as mentioned in the article, for example, Ms. Filippa Hamilton’s photos were edited unless the extent that the model’s head is wider than her waist, even though she was a healthy size 8. One example is the picture below:

In conclusion, I think that the media, as one of the key influence over society today, should try to set an example by not editing photos excessively and they shouldn’t over- publicize stick-thin figures or models with completely perfect features and skin. Instead they should portray a healthy and realistic image. For us, the public who are exposed to all these media, we also must learn to differentiate between realistic and idealistic beauty standards. There is nothing wrong with wanting to look nice, but we must also understand that most of the times, beauty comes from within.