Nowadays, it’s common to find some scientific, magic or cartoon movie with the background is in a virtual world. There are some typical examples like “Avatar”, “The Lord of the rings” and “Harry Potter”. They are widely adopting the graphical editing or even creating the whole digital picture. It seems that technology (graphic editing) helps us a lot as it realizes our amazing ideas in our brain. In fact, technology just like a magic ring with great power, there are some bad guys in fairy tales use this power to hurt others. Should we trust all the things captured by our eyes?On the other hand, from the comments of the audiences and the great prizes given to the movie “Avatar”, we can know that “Avatar” is a successful movie with excellent graphic elements combining with innovative ideas. However, there are some negative impacts to the society.From a piece of news article entitled ”Avatar driving us to suicide, say fans” (reference 1),it points out that some fans get addicted to Avatar’s world after watching and think that they should leave this real world and hope they can born in the Avatar’s world in their “next life”. The fact is we only live once, how come we would believe in and get addicted to a virtual world and think of commit suicide.Moreover, there are some young gamers even the well-educated ones, getting addicted to the virtual world and losing interest in daily social issue like schooling, eating or sleeping. Some psychologist and socialist point out one of the reason is the teens want to relief their pressure gained in the real world, they do not and some are even cannot realize whether our world or the computer world is the “real” one.
There are many researches and news support this view. It’s really a tragedy if young people believe they can live in a virtual world. It is a serious and long term problem we need to solve.(reference 2 is a piece of news with some analysis and view by professional,, also pointing out some physical and mental harms to us)
I am not saying that by using technology building up a virtual world is something harm to us, it’s the matter of the way we treat it.
After we consider the believing in society, now there are some critiques on the photo issues.
In the past, the term “professional photographer” only regarded as the ones can take good photos. But nowadays, a professional photographer should also be equipped with the graphical manipulation skill to edit photos. However, photo tampering, is also notorious for the misuse of the graphical editing. This technology is widely used in the advertisement, celebrities’ scandals or military usages.
Moreover, consider the computers we are using, normally they should be installed with photo editing software (even Microsoft “paint” is one of them) or you may easily download one freely on the web, not regarding the quality. It is getting easier for us to deal with image manipulation than before.
Regards to particular cases of Internet bullying, misuse of photo editing even worsen the situation, and one of the factors that worsen the situation is it’s getting easier to manipulate photo that many people can edit fake photo for fun or bullying.
Fun image edited from the MTR advertisement.
Majority of people accepted editing cover page of a magazine treated as gimmick and for fun. It cause us would first wonder the cover is real or fake when we look at every photo.
The cover image shown is edited by adding a tear on former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s face. Is it really a funny stuff? Should the sale override the feeling of others and the morale standard and neutral respect? I wonder.
In conclusion, graphical manipulation seems make our life complex. Try to think if it has never been developed, we can trust each image we get. Our lives should be as simple as childhood’s purity and naive. It implies seeing should only be trusted after your self-analysis on that photo. Actually, graphic manipulation or the virtual world stimulation is by no means just a technology with no actually benefits or harms to us. .The impact to us only depends of how we adopt it. Hope by using the graphic manipulation technology can make our miracle comes true but never nightmare.
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