Before photo shop, I’m realy not sure how people altered photos. But I will give a wild guess and please correct me if I’m wrong. I think they cut out something they wanted in one photo and then pasted it manually to another photo and then reprinted it; maybe. I think I’m wrong though.
How much tampering should you do to a magazine picture? Hmm… I’d say I understand airbrushing the photo to an extent. I don’t like it when it’s done so much that their face looks like plastic. If they hide a zit I can understand that to. I don’t think you should give the person a face lift though. That just makes the person look so fake. And I think messing with real beauty is wrong. But I guess some people will do anything to be “the most fairest of them all.”
In the photoshop disaters blog. I think “The Penthouse” was one of the worst. It is very obvious that they added that black woman in there (at least I think she’s black) or hispanic. I can’t tell. That, and the last one with the nude girl. It is very obvious that they arm was added in there as well. I could not find anything wrong with the Opra magazine cover. I could tell she was airbrushed but other than that I can’t tell.
To sum things up. Tampering with photos to an extent is wrong, and it should be used whisely.
