How photoshop effects the media

How photoshop effects the media

Photoshop can affect how people see their selves and the way they look compared to how models are portrayed in magazines. As you can see from the image bellow, this is a before and after image from a magazine cover. They have used lots of different tools to change the way the face looks to get rid of the imperfections, the tools they use include the spot healing tool. They also use tools that make the face glow more which makes the skin look flawless and healthier.

In the image above you can see the different techniques they may have used to change the face and the way it looks. To smoothen out the skin and remove imperfections, they could have used the spot healing tool, this would remove what they didn’t want on the skin. They have changed the shape of some of her facial features using the liquidfy tool, in this example they have made her nose smaller. They have also made the colour of her eyes whiter; this could have been done using the quick select tool and the brush tool to change the colour. 

You can see that there are massive differences in the way that the face looks from the original to the final image. The way that these images are edited make a false image of what the body should look like. This can really affect how young people see themselves compared to the media as it is impossible to achieve this imposable image of the body. Beyoncé is seen in the media to be a face of beauty and that is how people picture her and the way she looks, however the image they have created is unrealistic to how she looks without photoshop. This can impact how others see themselves when a face that they see to be perfect is actually heavily edited to create their final outcome.  

In my magazine I also used this technique to edit the skin and the way the body looks. I chose not to use the tools to the same extent as what they have in the images above. I used the spot healing tool to remove imperfections and edit how the skin looks. Using these tools makes the skin look smoother and changes the look of the skin. You can also use different tools like the quick select and brush tool to exenterate different aspects of the face. Another thing that you can do using photoshop is changing the shape of the face completely, you can do this using the liquidfy tool. Using this tool, you can change the size and shape of separate facial features easily, this shows a unrealistic shape of somebody’s face and the size of their facial features.