The Pros and Cons of Photograph Alteration

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The use of today’s photography technology invites many controversial arguments among the public. Some people have no problem with manipulated pictures, others believe that editing the picture of human being means not to appreciate human as God’s creature. It is commonly known that the majority of the pictures in magazines, billboards, and advertisements in public areas must have gone through the professional photo editing process to be maximized in effectiveness. The pictures are retouched so that it looks much more lively and delightful than the original ones. Using today’s photography technology, we are able to manipulate picture’s appearance into anything we want; it can be extremely fascinating or conversely. For example, you can transform people’s bodies to be as thin as a twig or as fleshy as an elephant.

The sophisticated technology in photography has a very important role in the advertising industry. It makes the advertisement pages in magazines look great and the billboards look sparkling. People tend to have more interest in pictures or things which are eye catching. For ...

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