Okay, so I do a lot of photoshop in my line of work, and I think that although most people know its a powerful tool, they dont really realise to what extent images can be manipulated. I was watching one particular tutorial on Youtube just now and this one popped up as a suggested video and, like a car crash, I watched with horror as they show you how to photoshop a beautiful woman into a more ideal media-friendly body shape. How does this make you feel about the images you see in glossy magazines? What effect must it have on the way we feel about our bodies? An artist friend pointed out to me that painters have been presenting idealised portraits of their subjects for hundreds of years and asked why this sort of thing was any different - I think that my response is that while the painters objective was to flatter their subject, but the medias is to invite us to compare our own bodies with an unreachable ideal as truth in order to make us feel bad about ourselves and thus get us to buy stuff. The video is just over 7 minutes long. Obvious content warning of body/fat shaming. https://youtube/watch?v=YVqC9j11c1o NB - I do not do this kind of work. The kind of work I do is mainly colour balancing, painting and cleaning up/extending photos so I can put blocks of text over them. The biggest lie I have been asked to create was a blue sky in the background of a Valleys tourist attraction when the reality was clouds!
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:17:44 +0000
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