Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

There is an article from the New York Times called, “Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell” the article was about weather young girls would be influenced to be bulimic because magazine pictures were enhanced.  The article said, “Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered, a 1-to-5 scale that distinguishes the infinitesimal from the fantastic.”  Also, the article talks about how super-skinny overly perfect images of women encourage eating disorders and low self-esteem because the strive to be just as perfect as those pictures.  This was also said I the article, “Readers aren’t fooled if you really sculpt the images,” Ms. Seymour said. “If you’re a good editor, you don’t go too far these days. If you give someone a face-lift,” she said, adding, “you’re a fool” I agree with this I don’t thing if it was that serious of a problem people would go above and beyond.  I think that to label the pictures is a horrible thing and it’s embarrassing to the person in the picture.  I think that all girls/boys should understand the difference between real and fake and there is no way to explain how a twenty-something year old woman is skinnier than a thirteen-year-old girl.  Don’t be discouraged by these pictures and don’t be stupid when it comes to understanding how perfect you are.  Those pictures don’t define who you are and you should already know they were enhanced.