Respone to Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label.

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"Some think such a law would destroy photographic art..."
This whole article was ridiculous in my honest opinion. I think the women is insane and her laws are pointless. Mostly everyone is blowing the whole photoshop dispute out of proportion. Anorexia is a chemical imbalance within the brain and it for the most part probably wouldn't be caused by photoshopped images. In our class, we did not use photoshop to alter the subjects, we simply used photoshop to alter the levels, white balance, color balance, correct exposure, curves, and draw more attention to the subject. No matter who says to stop photoshopping images, these people will find a way to do it, even if it does turn illegal. I think that this is just another law because someones crazy and needs something to mess around with that's been normal for a long time, but they think it needs to be changed. Yes, it wouldn't hurt if the photoshopping was so extreme, but to outlaw it all together takes away the mystery or fantasy of an image. Photoshopping is like another chance to change the mood or purpose of your image. People like Valerie Boyer simply need to get a life and stop trying to ruin what's been considered okay for a number of years. People always use the "anorexia" factor for their reasoning for outlawing photoshop, and it gets old after awhile. If someone wants to make photoshopping illegal, at least be a little more creative as to why you want to outlaw something basically harmless. And for the most part, outlawing photoshop would destroy photographic art. Many pictures all over the world were digitally modified to be what they wanted to be, and a lot of them are beautiful images, that without photoshop, would not be as beautiful.

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The author of the photograph could be any of these options. For example, the photographer could be the author because they made the photograph happen. The magazine editor could also be the author because this is usually where the idea or the layout of the photograph comes from. The retoucher, not as much, but still could be the author because this is still someone else's thought and changing of the image. And lastly, the model. The model could be the author if you really twisted it around and thought that whoever makes the image appear as to what it is, is the author.

Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label? Article --
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/fashion/03Boyer.html