Many of us use photoshop or photo editing programs to make our photographs look perfect, make us look slimmer, or smooth out or skin get rid of moles etc. Are we over using these photo programs and taking away realism? Everywhere we go people are bombarded by perfect looking celebrities who have their own photoshop masters who retoruch every picture the public sees. If you get your picture taken at a studio they also retouch everything with photoshop.

Now I'm not saying using photoshop is bad or that if you adjust color and lighting you're a demon. I'm talking about over alteration. If you look at most photoshoped pictures things like moles and birthmarks are edited out, wrinkles are gone, and hair is perfectly smoothed. With the perfection we strive for people are forgetting just how much imperfection makes a person's character and personality. I understand photoshoping out a pimple because it won't always be there, but if my freckles and birthmarks were photoshoped out I would probably be upset because those things make me unique and I'll always have them.

My question to you is: Why do we feel the need to use photoshop in order completely create another person out of our pictures?