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Essay Model Ps
Not only does excessive use of Photoshop on photos send out a poor message,
but it also can cause low self-esteem and body image issues.
Models that are already scarily skinny are made even smaller by magazines
and photographers. Their waists are shrunk, their arms and legs become
nothing but bones and every imperfection is completely erased.
Some photos go as far as to morph the women into figures that are impossible
to achieve in reality and are nothing short of Barbie-like.
The negative message these photos send out, especially to someone who is
already struggling with their image, is awful.
Alexa Lago
Not only does excessive use of Photoshop on photos send out a poor message,
but it also can cause low self-esteem and body image issues.
These types of photos lead us to believe that beauty can only exist in an
unachievable body type; that it’s even remotely healthy to look like the models
in the photos we see. It teaches us that it’s appropriate to try to hide our flaws
at all costs instead of embracing them.
Hours spent at the gym and extreme dieting can’t even create the image that
Photoshopped pictures do. Yet young women and girls are led to believe it can
be because of what they see on the covers of magazines day after day.
Instead of focusing on what is healthy and all different types of body shapes,
we are presented with the same Barbie-like figure time and time again.
These are not safe or healthy ideals to be sending out to an impressionable
audience.
A good portion of the problem comes from the influence of the entertainment
industry.
We tend to praise these highly edited images instead of seeing them for what
they really are, which is fake.
No one can have perfect skin, a size 0 body and flawless features, though we
fool ourselves into thinking that it’s achievable. When young girls see their role
model on the cover of a magazine conforming to these images, they think they
have to as well.
These ridiculous photos, when combined with other issues, can lead to low
self-esteem, a poor body image and eating disorders like anorexia, all of which
can be serious issues that can take years to battle and overcome.
The NEDIC launched a campaign urging fashion leaders and marketers to use
models with all different body types for their photo shoots, and reduce the
amount of retouching done in photos.
The petition and campaign were used to help women feel empowered and
shed their poor self-image.
Sadly, even with the NEDIC’s campaign and support from other outlets, the
fight to end the excessive use of Photoshop is a long way off.
Until then all we can do is remind ourselves that what we see is simply an
illusion and not reality.
Hopefully, if more awareness is brought to light, we can stop this misuse of
Photoshop for good.
从广告到杂志,我们无休止地被不切实际的图像所包围。在一个提倡完美
体型和“标准”特征的社会中,年轻女孩和妇女经常感到压力,要符合通
过数码照片修改过的不切实际的期望。
Photoshop 不是用来提高照片的质量,而是用来将女性的身体完全扭曲成
它不是的东西。
杂志和摄影师将已经瘦得可怕的模特做得更小。他们的腰部缩小了,他们
的胳膊和腿变成了骨头,每一个不完美的地方都被完全抹去。
有些照片甚至将女性变成了现实中不可能实现的形象,简直就像芭比娃娃
一样。
这些照片发出的负面信息,尤其是对于那些已经在为自己的形象苦苦挣扎
的人来说,是可怕的。
亚历克斯拉戈
在照片上过度使用 Photoshop 不仅会发出糟糕的信息,而且还会导致自尊
心低下和身体形象问题。
这些类型的照片让我们相信,美只能存在于无法实现的体型中;看起来像
我们看到的照片中的模型甚至有点健康。它告诉我们,不惜一切代价试图
隐藏我们的缺陷而不是拥抱它们是适当的。
我们不再关注什么是健康的和所有不同类型的体型,而是一次又一次地看
到同一个芭比娃娃般的身材。
这些不是向易受影响的观众发送的安全或健康的理想。
很大一部分问题来自娱乐业的影响。
在社会上,名人经常定义文化认为什么是美的,我们在杂志上看到的名人
和模特的形象几乎都经过了一定程度的编辑。
我们倾向于赞美这些经过高度编辑的图像,而不是看到它们的真实面目,
那是假的。
没有人可以拥有完美的皮肤、0 码的身材和完美的五官,尽管我们自欺欺
人地认为这是可以实现的。当年轻女孩看到杂志封面上的榜样符合这些形
象时,她们认为自己也必须这样做。
这些荒谬的照片与其他问题相结合,会导致自尊心低下、身体形象不佳和
厌食症等饮食失调,所有这些都可能是需要数年时间才能克服的严重问题。
国家饮食失调信息中心是一个非营利组织,致力于帮助人们解决这些问题
并传播有关这些问题的知识。
NEDIC 发起了一项活动,敦促时尚领导者和营销人员使用各种不同体型的
模特来拍摄照片,并减少照片中的修饰量。
请愿和运动被用来帮助女性感到被赋予权力并摆脱她们糟糕的自我形象。
在那之前,我们所能做的就是提醒自己,我们所看到的只是一种幻觉,而
不是现实。
These alterations are not offensive to some and they also argue that not only
does this catch the viewer’s eye; it can associate a sense of beauty with the
related product. Photoshopping in general should be restricted to colours and
lighting and should not be used to alter models as this can set unrealistic
standards for women and can incorrectly define beauty. Media around us
causes body dissatisfaction in teens. The world around us is flooded with the
mass media (television, videos, films, movies, billboards, magazines,
newspapers, music, fashion designers and the Internet).
While obviously no model looks like that in real life, there’s a psychological
impact on adolescent girls to look more and more like them. Young girls have
higher body dissatisfaction when compared to boys, they generally want to
weigh less and have a thinner waist. In a study it was seen that after the
viewing of slender bodies and altered images the body image was more
negative in girls, this negativity was strong in teens. Photoshopped images can
lead to unrealistic body standards for women and can in turn lead to body
dissatisfaction. Body dissatisfaction in teens can lead to severe anxiety,
depression and can cause teens to have more suicidal thoughts than the
average teen that doesn’t really care about their body. Teens are distressed
and troubled due to their body image to such an extent that they need
psychiatric help. More problematically the signs of body dissatisfaction are
ignored in most teens and are given treatment aimed at mood disorders,
anxiety disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Shy about their bodies they may not speak up and often remain uncured. Body
dissatisfaction can lead to eating disorders. This is not only limited or focused
to adolescent girls. The general body image is getting thinner and thinner day
by day and added the Photoshop effect some of the bodies are very
disproportionate. Their body type is what physicians would call anorexic. In the
pursuit to look like models or to say be ‘The cover girl’ most girls starve
themselves and refuse to eat all day. The negative image of their bodies can
lead teen to tremendously alter their diets which can has severe adverse
effects on their health. Dieting in teens that are not even overweight is rising
day by day; this crash dieting can lead to Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia nervosa
is a psychological condition in which the patient does not suffer a loss of
appetite for food but has them restricted to what and how much they can eat.
People might disregard this condition as very basic but Anorexia Nervosa can
lead to Bone fractures, cardio vascular problems, hematological problems,
Hormonal problems, Kidney problems and even Death. Continuous dieting
however can also result in other eating disorders, compulsive eating and its
other form, bulimia nervosa, a disorder in which the victim, most commonly a
women diets, experiences rebound binge eating due to food deprivation and
then purges to get rid of the excessive calories she had taken. Food restraint
can sometimes directly cause compulsive eating, an act which can swiftly turn
into a relentless habit. On the other hand is another disorder called Bulimia,
which can be termed as an illness , can be initiated by one thinking it would
work out as an effective way to control weight but it rapidly develops into an
addiction which can overwhelm the victim and in turn becomes their way of
coping up with emotional problems.
Being the choice of the reader would he rather pick a magazine which has
standard looking model on the cover page, which looks like everyday women
he encounters or a model who is different, slimmer, curvier, full-bosomed and
younger. The later would be the choice of many. However defending their
work, they forget the adverse effects it can have on the coming generation.
These effects can be crucial in defining how these youngsters turn out in their
adult age, they can suffer from severe psychological damages, which include
but are not limited to lack of confidence, low self-esteem, social anxiety etc.
Summing up the argument, it is safe to conclude that what Photoshop is doing
to our community has far worse and wide spread effects than the good it’s
doing to the fashion industry or print media.
We can say that the fashion industry can still flourish without the digital
alteration of the images of models if Photoshop is banned, however if it’s not
banned then these side effects pertaining to youngsters and the psychological
interpretation of the society today cannot be stopped, or contained.
Photoshop can create false hope in teens about their body and also can
increase the expectation an average male has from their female counter part.
If the ads do not directly pressurize the women, it can however create a false
image in the males mind and boyfriends/husbands/fiancés can also be the
reason women are pressurized to look more and more like the women that are
digitally altered. This can make the society a very difficult place for women to
survive in. there have also been cases in women worked 2 or more shifts to
save up money for the cosmetic plastic surgery that can help them fulfil their
imaginary goal of beauty. We can say that Photoshop should be restricted to
colour tones of the pictures, their background, or merging pictures together
however it should be completely banned when it comes to altering the physic
of the models.
数字化修改图片或“Photoshop”不仅是时尚行业的常态,也是当今与印刷
媒体相关的任何行业的常态。由于技术的原因,修图并没有开花,我们可
以追溯到 1500 年代,当时文艺复兴时期的艺术正在逐渐消失,一种新的
艺术形式出现了,称为矫饰主义,它赞扬了主体的改良物理超过了普通的
(1 )。设定不可能的标准,模型看起来像虚拟的感知,不像他们自己。
在时尚界,已经完美身材并追求“0 号”的模特被精简到变化非常明显的
地步。他们的脸得到了改善,他们的曲线变得突出,他们的皱纹被抚平了,
他们的棕褐色喷雾是数码改造可以提供的众多奇迹中的一小部分。不仅限
于名人或模特,如今的年轻人使用编辑应用程序来柔化色调并应用各种过
滤器,可以隐藏瑕疵,美白他们的色调并带来更清晰的皮肤。
这些改动对某些人来说并不冒犯,他们还争辩说,这不仅吸引了观众的眼
球;它可以将美感与相关产品联系起来。一般来说,Photoshop 应该仅限
于颜色和照明,不应该用于改变模型,因为这可能为女性设定不切实际的
标准,并可能错误地定义美。我们周围的媒体会引起青少年对身体的不满。
我们周围的世界充斥着大众媒体(电视、视频、电影、电影、广告牌、杂
志、报纸、音乐、时装设计师和互联网)。
惊人的统计数据显示,平均而言,儿童或青少年每天看电视多达 5 小时,
平均花 6 到 7 小时观看各种媒体。 (3) 正如所见,接触这些常见形式的
广告是孩子生活的重要组成部分。这些媒体上改变的女性是许多人的灵感
来源,也是大多数女孩所仰慕的。
虽然在现实生活中显然没有模特看起来像那样,但青春期女孩看起来越来
越像她们会产生心理影响。与男孩相比,年轻女孩对身体的不满程度更高,
她们通常希望体重更轻,腰部更细。在一项研究中发现,在观看苗条的身
体和改变的图像后,女孩的身体形象更加消极,这种消极情绪在青少年中
很强烈。 Photoshop 处理过的图像可能会导致女性的身体标准不切实际,
进而导致对身体的不满。青少年对身体的不满会导致严重的焦虑、抑郁,
并可能导致青少年比不关心自己身体的普通青少年有更多的自杀念头。青
少年由于他们的身体形象而感到痛苦和困扰,以至于他们需要精神科的帮
助。更有问题的是,大多数青少年忽视了身体不满的迹象,并针对情绪障
碍、焦虑症和创伤后应激障碍进行了治疗。
他们对自己的身体很害羞,他们可能不会说出来,而且经常没有治愈。对
身体的不满会导致饮食失调。这不仅限于或集中于青春期女孩。一般的身
体形象是一天比一天瘦,加上 Photoshop 的效果,有些身体很不成比例。
他们的体型就是医生所说的厌食症。为了看起来像模特或成为“封面女
郎”,大多数女孩都饿死自己,整天不吃东西。他们身体的负面形象会导
致青少年极大地改变他们的饮食,这会对他们的健康产生严重的不利影响。
甚至没有超重的青少年的节食量日益增加;这种快速节食会导致神经性厌
食症。神经性厌食症是一种心理状况,患者不会对食物失去食欲,而是限
制他们可以吃什么和吃多少。
人们可能会认为这种情况非常基本,但神经性厌食症会导致骨折、心血管
问题、血液问题、荷尔蒙问题、肾脏问题甚至死亡。然而,持续节食也可
能导致其他饮食失调、强迫性饮食和其他形式,即神经性贪食症,这种疾
病的受害者,最常见的是女性饮食,由于食物剥夺而经历反弹性暴食,然
后清除以摆脱她摄入的卡路里过多。节食有时会直接导致强迫性进食,这
种行为很快就会变成一种无情的习惯。另一方面是另一种称为暴食症的疾
病,可以称为疾病,可以由一个认为它可以作为控制体重的有效方法的人
引发,但它迅速发展成一种可以压倒受害者并反过来的成瘾成为他们应对
情绪问题的方式。
最近,由于媒体的生理压力和大量数字修改模型引起的饮食失调已经夺走
了生命。 21 岁的 Ana Carolina Reston 是她十几岁时的模特,在她只吃苹
果和西红柿后去世。 22 岁的路易斯·拉莫斯因只吃健怡可乐和生菜而死于
心脏病。 (2)。突出的鼻子,理想的小腿,大腿间隙,适当的胸围与腰部
的比例,噘嘴的嘴唇,增强的颧骨,无皱纹光滑的皮肤。这些是后期照片
拍摄过程中的许多数字校正现象中的一些。这些也是吸引或勾引普通男性
的一些身体属性。腰臀比是最受欢迎的,被认为是男性在女性中首先注意
到的 (4)。由于这些模型是人工的,因为它们经过数字修饰,在现实生活
中看起来不像这样,这些标准是无法实现的。
在《自我》杂志的一期中,歌手兼模特凯莉克拉克森被展示为非常苗条和
非常合身的模特,但几天后她在早安美国的出现证明了她的照片被购物的
事实(照片购物的俚语),后来,编辑们也承认了谣言的真实性(5)。
作为青少年注意力黑洞的模特给他们施加了心理压力,让他们看起来和穿
着那样,为了达到这些无法达到的标准,许多人选择了整形手术。从用于
消除皱纹的肉毒杆菌注射到捏和褶皱,这是一种通过手术去除体脂肪以使
身体更苗条的程序。这些天来,各种手术都在增加。根据托比梅尔维尔的
说法,整形外科行业的业务在过去 10 年中增长了高达 25%。整形手术昂
贵、痛苦且有许多副作用,但青少年仍会采用这种方法来模仿由数字修改
图像设定的美容标准。读者/观众感觉良好,这确保了他们对文章的兴趣。
作为读者的选择,他宁愿选择封面模特标准的杂志,看起来像他遇到的日
常女性,或者选择不同的模特,更苗条,曲线,丰满,年轻。后者将是许
多人的选择。无论如何捍卫自己的工作,他们都忘记了它可能对下一代产
生的不利影响。这些影响对于确定这些年轻人在成年后的表现至关重要,
他们可能会遭受严重的心理伤害,包括但不限于缺乏自信、自尊心低、社
交焦虑等。总结这一论点,可以肯定地得出结论,与它对时尚业或印刷媒
体的好处相比,Photoshop 对我们社区所做的事情具有更糟糕和广泛的传
播效果。
如果广告不直接向女性施压,那么它可能会在男性心目中产生虚假形象,
而男朋友/丈夫/未婚夫也可能是女性被迫看起来越来越像经过数字化改造
的女性的原因。这会使社会成为女性生存的非常困难的地方。也有一些女
性通过两班或多班轮班来为整容手术存钱,这可以帮助她们实现想象中的
美丽目标。我们可以说 Photoshop 应该仅限于图片的色调、背景或合并图
片,但是在更改模型的物理时应该完全禁止。
Photoshopping Models: The Reality of Being Fake
The majority of today’s society knows that many images in magazines are
retouched or edited. What people do not know, is that practically every image
in magazines are edited and models in them are completely photoshopped to
be thinner, flawless, and unrealistic. Models should not be photoshopped
because Photoshopped models have harmful effects on women in society,
models themselves, and those images are bad for advertisement. There are
many companies taking stands against Photoshop in advertising to help
minimize the issue, but not enough is being done to put the issue to an end.
Most people are unaware of what Photoshop is and what it is…show more
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Images with Photoshopped models have many consequences. In this case, the
victims of Photoshop are women in society that look up to Photoshopped
models as “real beauty”. This is because some women do not know that their
ideas of beauty presented in magazines, are created by a computer program.
In her article, “What’s behind the culture of Photoshop in Advertising” (2013),
Susan Krashinsky introduced her argument that Photoshop was having
negative effects on women. In order to develop her argument, Krashinsky used
statistics and cited editors and companies that use Photoshop and know the
severity of the topic. Since Krashinsky’s article, Photoshop has only grown
bigger in the modelling industry; and its results on women have grown as well.
Today, the effects of seeing Photoshopped models include eating disorders
and distorted body images. The results of these physical, emotional, and
psychological medical issues can vary, but are unhealthy and can become
deadly, no matter the situation.
Photoshop 模型:虚假的现实
当今社会的大多数人都知道杂志中的许多图像都经过修饰或编辑。人们不
知道的是,几乎杂志中的每张图片都经过编辑,其中的模型完全经过
Photoshop 处理,变得更薄、完美、不真实。模特不应该被 photoshop,因
为 photoshop 对社会中的女性、模特本身有有害的影响,而且这些图像不
利于广告。有许多公司在广告中对 Photoshop 采取立场,以帮助将问题降
到最低,但还不足以解决问题。
‘Photoshopping’ is the norm of not only the fashion industry but any
industry related to print media nowadays. While reading your fashion
magazine, I noticed that several of the models have been photoshopped. I
understand that photoshopping can make them look perfect and I applaud the
efforts of activists who demonstrate positive body image lifestyles.
We can say that the fashion industry can still flourish without the digital
alteration of the images of models if Photoshop is banned, however if it’s not
banned then these side effects pertaining to youngsters and the psychological
interpretation of the society today cannot be stopped, or contained.
Photoshop can create false hope in teens about their body and also can
increase the expectation an average male has from their female counter part.
So, I do hope you can try to show the real image of model.
Yours faithfully,
Zi Xuan