In your opinion, when is it beneficial, ethical, or appropriate to digitally alter photographic portraits? When do you think it is inappropriate or ethically wrong?
Sometimes when you take a picture, mistakes can happen. Photoshop becomes a live-saving tool when wedding pictures are full of red eyes. Another appropriate alteration is when pictures are too dark to see and you lighten them, or when old black-and-white torn photos are restored. It may be even beneficial to erase a blemish off of your face. I think it becomes inappropriate when someone change a persons weight dramatically in the photo to make it appear as if they are only beautiful when thin, when someone's skin is purposefully lightened, and to hide other flaws that make the person who they are. Changing someone's age dramatically can also be a problem. This is all, however, up to the person that is being photographed. If this is what they want, who are people to get upset with their decisions?
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