Blog Entry #6: Reflection on my "Perfect" Body Image

Recently in my Mercy Computer Graphics class, we have been working with Photoshop. As you all have seen the collage before, we have started something in what we call our "perfect" body image. In, our "perfect" body image, we take a picture looking natural. In another words, without make-up. With the picture we take, we photoshop it (adding make-up, remove blemishes, etc.), and add it to a celebrity's face to make our "perfect" body image. Shown below is what I call my "perfect" body image. I have placed my face on Selena Gomez's face after being edited in Photoshop.

                                        Before                                     After
  

                            

While working with Photoshop, there are certain things you think and feel after the finished project. For example, I feel very confident on the way my image turned out. With some struggles, I feel the picture turned out looking very natural.

You look at magazine covers today and say to yourself, "I think he/she is so pretty." Now that I have my own experience with Photoshop I now have totally different perspective. I now think to myself, "What does he/she look like naturally?" Magazines have very good examples of Photoshop. It shows you how magazine publishers changes the person's picture just to receive more attention by the fans and people who see the magazines picture in the store. With this experience, it tells you the view of today's view of the "perfect" body image. It catches your attention more than it really should.

While working with my "perfect" body image, I have the good things I did good on and the things I could defiantly improve on. One thing I believe I did good on is matching my face features to the Selena Gomez's. For example, I made sure my eyes fit to her eyes and my chin matched hers. Another thing I think I did good on is using the lasso tool to drag my face to the celebrity's and using the eraser to line it with her face. There are a few things I could defiantly improve on. One thing I could improve on is matching the skin tones. I think this because changing the opacity worked a little, but didn't turn out as good as it could have been. Another thing I could improve on is whitening my teeth. I could have done one tooth at a time, but I tried doing it all at once and left the space between each tooth.

So, what is your perspective on pictures on magazines now? Did this change your opinion or did your opinion never change? Photoshop brings a lot of differences to a persons body image, and that is what I have demonstrated above.