Sunday, June 15, 2008

When is Photo Manipulation Too Much?

Almost all the photos in the magazines are manipulated to help the celebrities not look bad, fat, or anything like that, and we all know that. Yet every time someone sees a picture in the magazine they all want to look like that, they all want to know how they look like that.

However, in O.J Simpson's case, the photo was manipulated to make him seem angry, mean, and like a murderer. In the magazines Newsweek and Time, the same picture of O.J was shown, except in the Newsweek magazine, it was the actual mug shot that was originally taken, when the Time magazine has the mug shot that was manipulated to make him look more of a murderer and to make him seem guilty because he looks so much meaner. The Time magazine has the title of “An American Tragedy”, it is almost saying that the day he is found not guilty will be the worst day ever for Americans.

Though I do not agree with manipulation photographs, especially when it comes to making some one look uglier or fatter, but there really is nothing we can do about it, because they will say that they are not manipulating photo's but we will never know. Manipulating photo's also takes away the saying “A picture means a thousand words”, it is more like a million words, because of everything you can do to the picture these days.

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