Smile and Say "No Photoshop"

In this article, the author discusses how many fashion magazines are using tools like Photoshop to edit and enhance their ads and pictures of their models. They change the looks of their models so drastically to make them look perfect. A perfect that no normal human being could ever be. Many people think these magazines are abusing their power and using way to much retouching instead of relying on what the model actually looks like. Photoshop has become more and more popular which is starting a large debate on whether this is right or not. Some people are saying that magazines should note if and how they retouched a photo. In this debate on whether retouching should be allowed is celebrities' publicists demanding editing changes. The author concludes that the best, most compelling pictures are the ones that are the most real.
I agree with the overall ideas of the article. Retouching photos has become completely common, and it would be considered strange not to edit a photo for a fashion magazine. It becomes a huge deal if a magazine publishes pictures that haven't been retouched in anyway, and it should be the opposite of this. I think with all the Photoshopping, we are sending out such negative ideas to girls who think they have to look like that too. They feel pressured to fit in with a society of skinny, blemish free models. I think Photoshop can be used to edit a photo because it can provide really cool effects such as on the background, but Photoshop should not be used to make people skinner or their muscles bigger and so on. I think when a picture is retouched, it should be necessary that the magazine say how it was Photoshopped. Then girls will start to realize that all these ads aren't one hundred percent real, and everyone is not perfect. As the article said, the pictures that people remember the most are the ones that are the most real, not the Photoshopped "perfect" ones.