Advertisements with Photoshop!

Many advertising magazines are made to sell their product, but they sell more than just their product. Take a look at this Ralph Lauren magazine that shocked everyone when it was revealed. This model is meant to sell Ralph Lauren clothing, but that is not what is so shocking to viewers. Take a look at this model's waist within the magazine. It is abnormally thin and makes her look disproportioned. Are the people at Ralph Lauren magazine trying to tell us that women need to be unhealthy to wear their product? This picture is obviously been manipulated using photoshop. It has been said that every single picture you see in a magazine is manipulated, but this one takes it to the extreme. It is adds like these that make women ashamed of how they look. Even if they buy these Ralph Lauren clothing, they will still not love themselves until they can achieve this anorexic-like body.

There are also photos in magazines that try to tell women that their body is fine the way it is. The photo to my right is not one of them.

You would think that this Vanity Vair cover of a pregnant Demi Moore shows that it doesn't matter what you look like. But if you really look into this photo, you see that even though she has a "big-belly" she still has a perfect body. This ad makes women think that even if they are pregnant, they must still have these perfect bodies, whether or not they are pregnant. All of these magazine covers show the life of woman as perfect and glamourous, but what they don't see is how these photos are photoshopped into these perfect images from the original. The creators of these ads are shaping the images into what they believe women should be presented like rather than letting them be what they truly are.

-Matt Van Tine-