Photography has come a long way.  There is nothing more innocent than looking at photograph and interpreting it how you perceive it.  It is this innocence that is constantly attacked by those that produce images to influence what we see.  Just as discussed in the article, our brains have a method of processing the information that we are seeing and we then use that information to make sense of what we are seeing.  This process takes all but a couple of seconds at most.  We then use the experience and knowledge that we have gained through the years to decipher what we are looking at.  We believe in photographs because we are not trained to detect those that have been altered or those that have been cloned to make us believe in then.  It is always easier to look at a photograph and believe in it than to look at a photograph and look for those visual cues that lead you to believe that it is not true.  We are all creatures of good faith so we are easily fooled by photographs that are faked and made for us to believe in them.

Digital photography is relatively new compared to film photography.  As the digital world continues to evolve so will digital photography.  There are many photo editing softwares out in the market but the one that is the most popular for its enhanced photo editing tools is Photoshop.  Photoshop is a sophisticated photo editing software that can do almost anything to an image.  It is pretty easy to alter an image with the right software.  If there is something that you want to do to an image you can do it in Photoshop and make it look like an original.  It takes a trained eye to reveal where an image might have been edited.  This is one of the many reasons why digital photographs are so believable.

We have all heard of the expression “A picture is worth more than a thousand words”, this catchy phrase puts things into perspective as far as how much a photograph is valued for what it represents.  This is what really makes us vulnerable to the images that are printed in magazines, new papers, and other types of media that we might ponder upon.  We must learn to take a little more time looking at images to find the truth in them.  We can not just look at an image and expect to believe what we see.  I am sure that there are some who do not always believe in what they see in the media but there are those who do not know any better and believe that every image that is printed on magazines, new papers or other medias are true.  Photo editors will do whatever they have to, to have their images printed and if they are getting pressure to edit a photo to make a story that is what they will do.

It is unfortunate that photographs are no longer used as they were shot.  Photographers are always under the pressure to produce an image that is unique and different and using photo editing software has become a method to enhance those photos.  Photo editing has become part of the process of developing photographs in the digital world.  Photography will always be used as a weapon to influence those that are targeted.  We must not always believe in the images that we find in material that is used to tell a story.  There might be more to the story than what the image or photograph is telling you.