Photoshop’s negative effects.

I have always known that you can change a lot about an image through Photoshop and last week’s tutorial only cemented that theory. However Photoshop has also had negative effects on the community as well.  It has made people a little paranoid when it comes to looking at pictures. For example, the summer before freshman year I took a family trip around Europe. So after the trip I of course uploaded pictures onto Facebook. There were pictures of me at the Eiffel Tower on a nice sunny day and I had noticed that one of my friends had commented on the picture, it simply read: Photoshop. After reading the comment I was actually really offended that my friend thought that I was the type of person who would take a picture of myself, set it to the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, and put it on Facebook. I’m sorry but I like to think that I have better things to do with my time. The whole ordeal made me think, has Photoshop changed the way we look at images? Do we need to make sure that all of our photos are slightly flawed so that there isn’t any suspicion that they’re fake?

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