We cannot legislate use Photoshop?

Those who are not aware: everything is photoshopped. Each image you see on a cover of the magazine is not real.

"I do not think that there is a single picture in those (magazines) that is not retouched." They are all manipulated to hell."Hany Farid, Dartmouth College"

A number of countries is beginning to talk about how you can legislate against the practice.

Can we really ask Governments to stop what consumers want (apparently)?

UK organisations are starting to talk about the initiatives that could be introduced to curb the practice of digital manipulation.

The magazines they defend the practice: "sometimes readers want hyper reality in a way - want to be taken out of their own situation." - Jill Wanless, associate editor of Look magazine.

Gabourey Sidibe in Elle - complete with wig and lightened skin.
Image of the precious film law.

Australia have recently introduced voluntary guidelines for the fashion industries and the means of communication. required code of conduct:

Reveal when images have been retouched and abstaining improvement of photographs in a way that changes the shape of the body of a person, for example, stretching your legs or crop your waist or removing freckles, lines, and other distinctive marks.

Photographers will be not be raising their hands 'volunteer'

"Do politicians really so underestimation of the people who think that a warning should be an image of fashion"?

"Maybe every woman using makeup should be a warning tattoo on his neck."

"Entertainment, media general, traffic on the fantasía.En that sense, image manipulation is a legitimate part of the task of entertainment producers."(source)

What can we really count us with 'voluntary' codes? O even legislation? how consumers have a role to play here? research (and anyone with eyes to see) show that the size and shape of our bodies are increasingly disagreed with images from the media.

See our exhibition in the form of female body in 20th century if you need more convincente.O even of Wired computer graphics on the decreasing size of models Playmate.

Does anyone actually know how 'hyper reality' affects us?

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