February 19, 1990 is the birthday of the graphics editor Adobe Photoshop. Today “Photoshop” is commonplace, we look at glossy photographs on the covers of a magazine and understand that a smooth face without wrinkles, ideal figures and snow-white teeth of “stars” are a kind of myth, convention. Even catwalk models with seemingly ideal bodies and long legs "from molars" were processed in Photoshop. But psychologists say that just three seconds is enough for an ordinary woman to look at the photo ideal and feel ashamed of her own imperfection. Yes, in life we are not like the "face on the cover." But the “faces from the cover” in life are not like that either. Photographers, stylists and craftsmen who have mastered the tricks of color correction and "Photoshop" have worked on them. And our complexes do not disappear anywhere anyway. Women go on diets, go crazy with cosmetic procedures and run to a plastic surgeon. Others take the simple path and work their imperfect face into a state of radiant ideal. Today you no longer have to pore over the most complicated "Photoshop", because every smartphone has an image correction program. It makes the eyes huge, the skin glowing and smooth. Here it is, a miracle! Thomas Knoll, who was the first to process graphic images, did not expect that Photoshop would turn into a smithy for stamping beauties, but just wanted to clean up the picture …
Of course, the history of "Photoshop" has not been without overlaps. Starting with a curiosity, when the navel was erased along with the roughness of Claudia Schiffer's skin. And ending with the scandal with corpulent Kate Winslet, which the English edition of GQ reduced by several sizes. It turned out that Kate doesn't want to be skinny. He wants to be himself! Just like other world celebrities who starred for the project of the French ELLE without Photoshop. Photographer Peter Lindbergh explained his idea: “I believe that heartlessly processed, unrealistic photographs should not reflect the feminine ideal at the beginning of the new century. The processing turns real women into some kind of creatures from Mars."
The tragedy of the modern world is that it is difficult for us to accept ourselves as we are. With flaws, overweight, short legs. Everyone wants to become queens and princesses, to stun others with their unearthly beauty. But in a whole army of perfection, as if stamped on one machine, it is as easy to get lost as in any crowd. But Photoshop is not to blame for this, but we, people. Weak, disliked, notorious, eternal little girls, gentle and touching, for some reason pretending to be “creatures from Mars”.
