Photo editing culture

After a deeper research on RED PEOPLE and other celebrities in other country, I realise that Malaysian uses a lot of photo editing apps for their images than other countries. There are numerous apps they used for editing – Mei Tu Xiu Xiu (美图秀秀), Photoshop, Photo Editor, Piclab, PhotoWonder and many other apps. By using these apps, their photo can become a totally different from their real appearance because they edited 70% of the images using slim tool, light tool, skin tone adjustment and filter. The reason why they edit their photo so much because it helps them to look like a star or helping them to get more fans. This issue makes people confuse on what is the real appearance of the celebrity because they uses a self-portrait camera that has auto beautifying function. User don't need to learn Photoshop to edit photos, the camera auto-generate to skin brightening and make-up mode. Here are some examples of photo that uses photo editing and a good quality gadget for self-portrait, EXILIM TR (Casio brand digital camera specially for self-portrait and for best solution):

Casio - EXILIM TR

 Michiyo Ho (left) Kelly Ng (right) before and after photo editing/ TR

Joyce Chu (left) Charles Tee (middle) Wong Xiao Le (right) before and after photo editing/ TR

Joyce Chu before and after photo editing/ TR

Yuki Lee (陈太) before and after photo editing/ TR

Besides, we know RED PEOPLE’s photo is their real appearance by watching their video because they only edit their photo not the video. For example, Jimmy Tan has obvious different appearance between his image and video because he uses photo editor to slim down his body size.

 Jimmy Tan before and after photo editing/ TR

Example of how Photoshop editing for body slimming

Therefore, it’s a culture for them to edit their photo before posting unless they use an auto editing digital camera because an unedited photo looks bad in lightning and each pores or pimples on the face can be seen clearly. In short, they can’t accept the truth that they look in that way so they edited their photo as much as they can to look gorgeous. But why I will says that Malaysians use more photos editing than Westerns?

After researching, I found that Western people uses Photoshop editing mostly for celebrities and their editing is for posters, album or other events. They seldom edit their daily life photo because it’s they posted their daily life photo for their fans and they’re open to let people know their personality and appearance in their daily life. But why they edit their posters? Because it’s for events and it’s normal to do Photoshop in posters or albums to adjust the body shapes so that it will attract people to look at it. 

 Candice Huffine before and after Photoshop

 Kim Kardashian before and after photoshop 

Candice Huffine normal photo without thick make-up/ editing

This reveals the true self of them without make-ups and editing when they’re not involve in events because no one would like to see you in make-up all the day. For me I will curious about how do they look like when they’re not with make-up. Not to laugh at them just wonder why not they have more self-confident than wearing a mask all the time? 

Ellen unedited photo

 Miley Cyrus 

Candice Huffine

Above are the example of celebrity that uses Photoshop and their self-portrait. Western Youtubers also didn’t Photoshop their photo because they being who they are. They’re famous because of their talent not from their appearance. They look exactly the same as they're from the video. 

 Jason Chen on stage photography

 Sam Tsui self-portrait

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