Manipulation

When it comes to picture manipulation, digital media has made it extremely easy to change pictures in such a slight way that sometimes it's too realistic to even notice. On the other hand, it's also easy to create something that looks aesthetically pleasing, but are clearly unrealistic. For example:


It's obvious that this isn't a real picture, but it looks really neat just the same.



Now, it's a lot harder to tell that something has been done to this picture. For fashion, they manipulate pictures all the time to make people look a certain way. Just by shaping her eyebrows, changing the color of her lips and eyeshadow, and softening her skin's appearance, she is transformed into a more pleasing look. Nowadays with magazines for instance, young girls are misinformed about how they are supposed to look. They see pictures of models that are completely manipulated, making it seem like they're just naturally missing shoulder blades, have a perfect tan, ridiculously flat stomachs, and so on. No one really looks like that, not even the models that are in the pictures. By changing the way we look, we're giving false impressions and making people, especially young girls, feel like they have to look a certain way.