Comments on: Should Magazines Stop Using Photoshop?

By: abbie

abbie — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:09:12 +0000

i dont agree with this!
i do a small amount of teenage modelling and (not boasting or anything) i am naturally really slim. i eat SO much but dont pile on pounds. models today all have HBMR’s (high basic metabolism rates) so they are naturally tall or skinny. majority don’t need to be slimmed down. Also, my skin is really clear! im so lucky! yes, the odd blemish gets erased but thats to make you more attracted to the clothes, NOT THE MODEL. its to make you think of how good you can look in these clothes. models aren’t totally fake at all, the colours are edited, but thats the most editing there is! i know, from experience.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:53:25 +0000

I really wish they’d stop air-brushing models in all the magazines because, even though I know it’s fake, it still upsets me because I know I can never look thet ‘perfect’ or ‘pretty’! I spend quite a bit of time on my make-up in the morning but still don’t think I look (according to the media) ‘pretty’! So, yeah, they should definitely stop! xoxo

By: FPC

FPC — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:22:10 +0000

I believe photos of celebrities on the cover of magazines should be kept as natural as possible, they are real people, embrace the imperfections.

But when it comes to brands particularly in fashion, why not. The designers in charge of this brand use models to advertise their products, these models are nothing but a base for a character or personality for the brand. Yes, they are based on real people but essentially the model is no more than a character of which ever brand he or she models for.

Just like an illustrator will adapt cartoon characters to appeal to a particular audience, designers photoshop models to appeal to their target audience, they are no way a representation of how we should look. So what if she makes the models eyes brighter or whatever, this model is a character not a person. People need to understand this. Just because they look like real people, doesn’t mean is it real.

Similar to special effects in movies. Take Harry Potter for example, the dragons and other made up beasts all look real on screen and in print but we all realize that these creatures do not exist. They are not real people so why bother trying to look like them? You may as well aspire to be Homer Simpson, he and the models are nothing more than a personality dreamed up by who ever created them.

We should be making more of an effort to teach our kids the difference between fantasy and reality.

On other note, these “articles” have gone to shit since the gurl make over. Now they seem to be written by a biased 14 year old who thinks she knows it all.

By: Missfiction

Missfiction — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:26:07 +0000

This is stupid.
Girls need to toughen up and realize the real world and i think a girl who walks by a magazine cover and thinks she wishes she could be that flawless is just stupid. Everybody knows THATS NOT REAL.
We need to toughen up and realize just because its on a picture DOESNT mean people expect us to be a LIKE THAT PICTURE. This is stupid. Girls need to know that Photoshop is not what they think.
Yeah we are all gunna think “that picture is so great and i wish…” ok i know but seriously. Its fake.
And photoshop is usually used to make a photographers work look better.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:30:24 +0000

Why is it a girl’s responsibility to determine what’s a realistic portrayal of a woman?
There’s a hidden message behind most edited photos, especially the ones in advertisements: “This is pretty. Work to be like this.” (If it’s an advertisement, “Buy this and be pretty.”) Whether photographers and advertisers want to admit it or not, these pictures set standards. And when the standard has become something homogenized and unnatural, girls like Julia Bluhm have every right – you could even say a responsibility – to speak up.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:57:26 +0000

I think that it’s wrong for imperfections to be hidden. Obviously we have them for a reason, and my imperfections make me feel the most beautiful! My boyfriend constantly tells me that just because I have a little bit of a belly, or that I’m extremely short, or heck, even the fact I’m pale as a ghost, that I am beautiful. And honestly, I believe him. If someone else can accept me and my looks, then so can I!

By: david3452

david3452 — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:20:14 +0000

Sure, Miss Fey knows, you too. And i bet everyone in the business involved knows , too.

So, it´s totally ok, to literaly feed girls from the youngest age on with pictures of their idols in a unrealistic photoshopped manner. Hey , since “we” all know what they are,
it cant have any bad influence, right?

Lets just forget the big difference, when, lets say miss doe, tries to look as good as she can on her private album and miley cyrus, rihanna or whoever is popular right now among teens. They can just do like Tina Fey.
That is why i am glad that a site called “gurl” finaly stands up to tell a 14year not to waste her energy on things no one has a problem with.