Photo Manipulation- How Much is to Much?

Knowing that almost all photo's in the magazines are manipulated to make the celebrities look bad, fat, or anything they can do. Every time I see a photo in the magazine I think to my self how badly was this manipulated? Is this even real?



As for O.J Simpson's case, the photo was manipulated to make him seem angry, mean, and like a murderer. The two magazines you see below are Newsweek, and Time, the Newsweek photo of O.J Simpson is the actual mug shot of him, and the Time magazine is the mug shot that was manipulated to make him look like a murderer, and to make him seem guilty because he looks so run down.
The Time magazine has the title of "An American Tragedy," it is almost saying, the day he is found not guilty, will be the worst day ever for Americans.
Though I do not agree with manipulation photographs, especially when it comes to making some one look uglier or fatter, but there really is nothing we can do about it because, they will say that they are not manipulating photo's but we will never know. Manipulating photo's also takes away the saying "A picture means a thousand word," it is more like a million words, because of everything you can do to the picture now-a-days.

Work Cited
“Metropolitan Magazine.” 30. September. 2006. Online Image. Heroin Chic and the Power of Photo Imagery Manipulation . 10. January. 2008

“O.J Simpson.” 19. October. 2007. Online Image. Top 15 Manipulated Photographs. 10. January. 2008