The Danger of PhotoShop

There are hundreds of actors, actresses, and musicians that almost everyone has heard of. But how many of those celebrities could you actually name the first place they showed their face in show business? CelebOrigins is meant to showcase that first commercial, audition tape, film, story, or music video, that this celebrity debuted in. We have made it our goal to dig deep and search for these rare findings and share them with the world.

Why is PhotoShop a danger for us?

PhotoShop is a fantastic program. It allows you to do almost ANYTHING to a photo. The danger lies within this fact.  PhotoShop has the dangerous power to deceive users of false authenticity.  Skillful PhotoShop users could edit a picture of a celebrity into almost any situation and fool 80% of viewers. For example, a skilled PhotoShop user could potentially release a picture of Shia LeBouf as a child standing with Morgan Freeman.  Though this is amazingly impressive that certain people can edit photos to look incredibly real, it can pose a threat to websites like CelebOrigins which strive to present authentic but rare material of celebrities as children.

Our website will provide a 100% guarantee that all of our material is authentic.  We will never post a picture that we feel is suspected of being PhotoShopped, and we will have a team of people dedicated to authenticating our rare celebrity photos.  Though unfortunately, the mere fact that PhotoShopped images are so prevalent, there will almost always be those who speak out against the authenticity of our photos.  It is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on the web because it is becoming far more difficult to believe everything you see on the web.  There is an old saying that goes, "believe 25% of what you hear, 50% of what you read, and 75% of what you see."  Thanks to PhotoShop, that 25% of examples of eye trickery may expand (at least when it comes to the web).

However, there are elements of the website in which PhotoShop could come in handy, such as for headers, footers, logos, or other artistic aspects. CelebOrigins has nothing against the use of PhotoShop for artistic purposes. There is no denying the greatness of PhotoShop as a program, but its power can easily be abused.  Users of CelebOrigins must fully respect and believe our guarantee of authenticity: without authenticity, the site cannot not prevail.