Photoshop is a largely used digital editing tool, and it can work magic. It can alter anything’s appearance completely to make it ideal. Although this is huge for marketing, it brings up a dilemma: is Photoshop forcing our society to achieve unrealistic standards? With Photoshop's ability to make something into a more desirable thing can maybe higher sales on a product, but for people it might make them more critical of themselves, or even make people sad about the way that they are. This is, ironically, not ideal. The fact that one digital software can change people’s perspectives about what really matters to them in a person is kind of scary, especially with how widespread and commonly it’s used. The standards that Photoshop sets are high, and I think if companies keep using it to represent perfect people using perfect products, then what’s the point in using it? People know that they are not perfect, and eventually they will get tired of seeing the perfect shave on a perfect face, or a slim outfit on a slim person. Its not just people, either. Sometimes products and the environments they’re in can be edited, making people also start to feel different about where and how they live. Photoshop and other digital editing tools can be great, just not when used to this extent. When things have to be edited this severely, it probably isn’t worth people’s time.
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