Photoshop Magic

My sister and I are obsessed with Photoshop and all of the interesting things that you can do to pictures with it. Therefore, I really enjoyed the movie that we watched in class. Especially when she talked about how they use these super skinny models that only represent a small proportion of the population and that most of it is based on genetics. However, I think that the majority, if not all, of what we see in magazines has been mastered by Photoshop. I think I realized how out of control this has gotten when I saw an article (or a story on TV or YouTube, I can't remember) about how they actually use Photoshop to make plus size models bigger! I think what was most shocking about this story though was how much backlash it was getting that they would make someone fatter, but people in magazines are made skinnier, buffer, "sexier" on every page of every magazine and you hear very little about this. I have to admit, my sister and I have been trying for years to get my mom to let us Photoshop a family picture of us to send out as our Christmas card (clearly, this would be a joke), but she still won't go for it. I think if everyone played around with Photoshop and knew what you could do with it (the possibilities are truly endless) you would never look at advertisements and pictures in magazines, books, movie posters, books, or billboards the same again!