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Communication has always been a vital part of our lives, important as it is, it keeps us up to date with what is going on around us and is the base to mostly everything we do. Throughout the world there exists many ways of communicating with one another but one of the most popular and successful today is the multimedia and entertainment industry, with this photojournalism. With the rapid advances in technology, a TV, computer, or a magazine are more accessible than ever before. News and entertainment are available at the touch of a finger and sometimes that isn’t as healthy as it sounds.

Photography today is now a key tool seen as a form of expression, an art, or a hobby, but most importantly as a significant part of a business and industry. Rapid advances in technology have created a program called photoshop, which can edit an image many different ways. The software is now used in most magazines, ads, and photography in order to a create a “perfect digital beauty.” But have people lost the original purpose of a photograph? Now a days can any person take a simple picture and transform it into something beautiful? With this software experienced photographers everywhere are no longer appreciated because photoshop can do their job. Not only is this software affecting careers in photojournalism but also the viewers of these pictures are getting a negative message.

Around the world the most beautiful pictures are found on magazine covers. Appearing to be perfect the cover girls or guys display an epitome of what we find as beautiful. What not everyone knows is that these images have been chopped up, excess fat has been removed from their bodies, abs have been airbrushed, teeth have been whitened, and all to crea...

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As the new visual storyteller, photojournalism is also there to present facts. Photojournalism is there to inform, narrate a story, or to depict a situation. As for this, for every upside there is a downside. A very big downside is photoshop, which is used to transform a picture to make it seem something it is not. Photographers sometimes use photoshop to change a picture to their advantage, sometimes to sell a lie.

Photojournalism has long been considered to have a tradition of reflecting the truth. It has been a major element in newspaper and magazine reporting since the early 20th century. It was probably only about a century ago when people believed that what they saw in photographs was factual. This impact of visual image as seen by the viewer was based on the old belief that "the camera never lies". A photograph is worth more than a thousand words.

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