After I finished reading the article “Is Photoshop Destroying America’s Body Image?”, I do believe that Photoshop should be regulated in some sort of way. Today, when teenagers, as well as some adults, look at advertisements and magazines that show actors and models looking almost unreal because they’re so perfect, people want to be like them. Everyone wants to be accepted by the world and with everyone always loving the way models look, they believe that they have to look like them in order to be noticed. And since they want to look thin and slim like all of the ‘good-looking people’, some people will do anything they can to look like that. Many people go as far as not eating at all or throwing up whatever food they did eat.

“The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced it was taking a stand against image manipulation in advertising, stating that alterations made through processes like Photoshop can contribute to unrealistic body image expectations, eating disorders and other emotional problems.”

             Even though this is a very valid point, I can also see what the others are saying to counter these statements. If companies were to stop using that much Photoshop for their ads, models would then be expected to be physically thinner since they can no longer use Photoshop to make them at least appear thinner. This would then harm the lives of all the models that are as thin as they are now. However, adding on to this, it shouldn’t be a requirement to be thin in order to be a model. Only a few out of many women, as well as men, are what society considers being skinny. If models were to stay in the same shape/form that they were naturally supposed to have, wouldn’t that make it easier for the viewer of the advertisement to connect to the product being advertised and therefore make them want to purchase it?

“In a post here entitled “Photoshop Isn’t Evil,” Elizabeth Perle wrote that her “knee jerk reaction to hearing this news was a long, exaggerated eye roll.” The AMA’s statement against Photoshop, she believes is “too little too late,” adding it “frankly might make it worse for models, actresses, singers and other performers, for whom the pressures to alter their bodies will only be heightened.””