Altering bodies is becoming more and more prevalent within the fashion industry. Celebrities and models who are featured on magazine covers are beginning to lash out at such companies who they believe are editing their images. For example, the Huffington Post wrote about Kate Winslet and Brad Pitt, two of Hollywood’s well-known individuals, standing up against these types of edits. Kate Winslet stood against GQ Magazine for digitally altering parts of her body. These edits made her much more thin than she is. Brad Pitt stated that he asked for no retouching on his cover for W magazine and he even hand selected his photograph, Chuck Close. Chuck Close is a photographer that is well-known to expose skin flaws and not retouch his photos by any means. More and more people whether celebrities or models or not, are seeing the flaws in this program and are curious how this could affect the future off photography. If you only rely on a program to get the perfect shot, is there such thing as taking the photos any more. A photographer should aim for getting the right picture as she or he is taking it, not the other way around. Photography is a sacred art that is being interrupted by the potential of an outside helper, Photoshop. However, Photoshop can provide methods to be able to create magical wonderlands and aid industries that focus not on retouching photos and manipulating them, but on the creation of a new world. Only time will tell though how much the public will lean toward the creation of something versus the edit.
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