Photoshop, Selfies & The Media

With apps such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook these days everyone has started taking 'Selfies' a word that has now even got itself into the dictionary and a song has just been wrote about it. 

With apps like Instagram letting you use filters to change the look of your images to make them look better you are able to change your appearance in a digital way. 

I have took Selfies myself and I do use Instagram and will admit I do use the filters that comes on it because they do make your images look better. But I feel like these days everyone who has these apps use these kind of things and it is just what people will automatically do on this kind of app. 

Photoshop is a software on your computer or laptop that people use to edit images. Most magazines these days will use photoshop to edit images. Or for advertising purposes to make people look thinner or more airbrushed and perfect because they feel like this will help sell there products. People have got so used to seeing these edited images that when they see an image of someone not edited for example when magazines put images of celebrities in magazines looking 'bad' there not bad images they are just non edited images of them which people are not used to seeing anymore. 

Natural beauty isn't a thing anymore in today's society. 

Without realising we are always trying to improve our image. This might not be as extreme as surgery but using makeup can change the way a person looks drastically, even just using whitening toothpaste or having braces is just us trying to improve what we already have.