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Pretty Little Liars Star Ashley Benson Speaks Out About Photoshopped Image

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12/16/2013
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Last Updated on 12/16/2013 by Chris Gampat

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It seems these days that lots of actresses are speaking out about Photoshop–with Dove being a major one. Recently on Instagram, Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson spoke out against it. She states that she saw an image of her and her co-stars floating around and voiced her opinion against it. In her eyes, she thinks that they all look four years younger–adding in that there is too much photoshopping. With this in mind, we’re not sure if Ashley realizes that the target audience of this show partially watches it because of their relatable age–so if they stay younger  looking that could also potentially mean that they’ll keep their viewers.

Though Photoshopping a person for the purpose of advertising makes sense from a sales and promotional point of view, sometimes it can surely get excessive. Maybelline, for example, had to pull an entire ad campaign for giving a woman cat eyes.

In general though, I think that culture and the media is getting this all wrong. Photoshopping refers to manipulating an image. What Benson is really complaining about is excessive retouching–and I hope that she really does understand this. The reason why she looks so young is because of some serious use of masques, gaussian blur, some cloning, and maybe even some perspective warping. On top of this though, a star of Ashley’s caliber will be going through lots of makeup and wardrobe because they’re essentially working for a brand that is therefore owned by a larger company.

And that company wants to sell advertising space to viewers.

Via SLRLounge

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.