Photoshop Effects

I was very surprised and very intrigued by what we learned in class today. The amazing effects photoshop can have on pictures.

I have a friend, who lives in Phoenix, and she photoshops all her pictures before she puts them on the Internet (i.e myspace). She mostly does it to smooth the skin on her face so you cant see all her scars, from acne and fights. She might even add some words or a picture frame just to personalize the picture. All this i was familiar with and very aware of.

Even the models in magazines, I knew that their hair and make-up is done by a team of professionals and that their bodies are airbrushed. But its this tool that's called the "liquefying tool" that astounded me. For those of you not familiar with this tool, what it does is basically manipulates the pixels of an image. It can move them anyway to want, most of the time creating a completely different image. Below is a short video by dove that barely scratches the surface of the amazing effects photoshop has on a picture.



The big debate now days, is whether or not there should be a disclaimer on every picture/ad that is photoshoped saying just that. Maybe something like, "Warning: This image was photoshoped. This is not reality." Ok, so maybe scratch the reality part, but you see where this is going. I am on the affirmative side of this argument. I agree that there should be a disclaimer on these pictures for 2 reasons. 1) So young girls (and boys) are very aware of whats real and whats not. That the images they are looking at are real images and not a manipulated version. 2) So the people who spend hours and hours a day going over every detail, photoshoping pictures, get the credit they deserve for producing these immaculate images.

What do you think?