Photoshop Research Paper

Abigail Caulfield Caulfield 1
April 5,2014
English 9
Mr.Beskin

The Other Side of Photoshop

Part 1:
Everyday magazines, ads, television and all sorts of media produce images of impractical beauty. Photoshop has not only changed the face of society but altered how people view themselves. The reason that I decided to research photoshop is because I am interested on how much photoshop is done to a model and how the viewers and the models react to it. After researching articles and documents about photoshop I came to the question, does photoshop affect what people think of themselves? I thought of this question because it can relate to everybody, models, readers and even the people who use the photoshop. More
According to Seventeen Magazine fifteen percent of 18 to 24­year­olds surveyed, were convinced that the images of models and celebrities in advertisements or any type of media accurately displays what these women look like in real life. People should know more about how photoshop can change a person and the impact it has on people because it can lower self­esteem and cause sorts of depression. Study and tests shown at the University of Michigan people feel worse about themselves when a product is being displayed and the model is photoshopped rather than a model on a cover being photoshopped. Before I started researching I didn’t know that much about photoshop or how often it was used.

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When I started researching I realized it is a bigger topic than it seems and so many magazines have campaigns to limit it. I’m happy I chose photoshop because I am starting to realize it has big
The Uruguayan model
Luisel Ramos, 22 , was told that she could “make it big” if she lost a significant amount of weight. For three months she ate nothing but salads and diet coke in hopes of reaching a size zero. Minutes after stepping on the catwalk, she dropped dead from heart failure. Many magazine campaigns and laws are being made to prevent what happened in Uruguayan from happening again. Some of the top magazines are taking a stand against models who look to skinny or like they have an eating disorder. Vogue magazine one of the worlds top magazine in style said they were no longer photographing women who look like they have an eating disorder. In Israeli underweight models are banned from being in any type of advertisement and runways. From Usatoday.com psychologist Sharon Lamb says “ It use to be you would only see one or two skinny models, now we are bombarded with them and messages telling us to be like them” she also studied that only 18% of women can reject from changing how they feel about themselves. The American Medical Association even tried to take a stand against photoshop. They urged advertisers to