Your Dream Body

Before Picture

After Picture

     In today's world people want to look perfect and be perfect. Believe it or not, people are so desperate to be and to have to the perfect body that they use Photoshop to perfect themselves. For example, people on the cover of magazine's. They take a normal picture of themselves, then they go back and get rid of blemishes, wrinkles, freckles, and yellow teeth. Even the people on television commercials. They do the same thing.

     This assignment was a challenge for me to try and have the perfect body image. So what I did was I found a picture of Jessica Simpson on http://www.skincareblog.net/images/jessica_simpson_hairstyle.jpg. Then I took a normal picture of me, and opened the Jessica Simpson picture on Photoshop. Once I uploaded my normal picture into Photoshop, I was able to then cut my face off my body and onto Jessica Simpson's body. Of course I had to make some changes such as: skin complexion, eye color, teeth color, and I also added make up. Once I finished trying to make it look normal, I had to try and make the picture look normal. So I had to get rid of blemishes and freckles, then I had to combine my face onto her head so it looked like that my face was her original face. But I also had to keep in mind that it had to look natural.

     My overall feelings about this transformation is that I am very happy how this turned out. I never would have thought that I would look like Jessica Simpson. But it also made me realize that I can't really trust the pictures on magazine ads or television ads because now I know from first hand that they really don't look like that. Now I'm not saying that people always use Photoshop to make themselves look like Barbie. I'm sure there are people out there who look absolutely perfect without any help from technology. This project made me also realize that people are to obsessed with perfection. People have to realize that no one is perfect.

     While working on this project I feel like somethings I did really well on and somethings I had some problems with. Some of the things I think I did really well on would be like, fitting my face onto her body while making it look natural, matching her skin tone with mine, and basically making it all look normal. Now some of the things that I had problems with would be getting rid of blemishes, getting my face the right size to match her body, and trying to match the face complexion with the rest of the body.

     I hope this make other people realize that people on magazines or television commercials don't always look the way they seem. So the next time you think about buying this new face cream because it works oh so well, remember that people just want you to think that it really works but really they used Photoshop to make it look like. Now some of these face creams really do work. Just remember that people aren't perfect.