Strawberry Fields, Nothing is Real
So my partner sent me the most fascinating link yesterday to Photoshop Disasters – a blog where readers send in their pictures of photoshop mistakes they find in media. A lot of it is pretty funny. But even though I already knew models get airbrushed and otherwise changed around, it really brought home to me how much the pictures of women we see in magazines, that are repesented to us as beautiful, are no longer, in any way, real.
The choices made in the way they photoshop women in particular are very telling. Various tricks are used to make women look younger, not just smoothing out wrinkles, but by making the head bigger in proportion to the body, trimming the actual body, smoothing out or erasing parts of the body that would show an adult or mature distribution of body fat.
EDIT: Well they seem to have taken down all the links. Go have a look, anyway.
