I'd never had the chance to work with photoshop before, and though I knew it could alter images and add special effects, I never realized it could do so at such great extents. Some of my classmates and I were actually looking at some before and afters and we were surprised at the extreme changes obvious when images were juxtaposed. And just yesterday, KTLA News reported on an airbrush controversy facing British magazine businesses. The British government wants to pass a law requiring magazines to label any images that have gone through photoshopping, as "digitally altered." They say that these magazines pose a danger to normal sized women, and even men, as they portray a false sense of beauty that is not attainable in real life. Artists feel that government intervention is a horrible idea because it prevents the execution of their art and could negatively affect sales, as people want to think of the "cliched" beauty in ads and photo spreads as realities. I've provided the KTLA article and a related link below so you guys can take a look. Do you think government intervention is extreme in this case? Or do artists using photoshop really have such negative effects on society?
-Jacqueline Escobedo
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