learning Pixlr and The Problem of Editing

I have never edited a picture up to this point, so learning how to use an editing program was abit tricky but we went through it step by step and then was left to have a play and go and design different things.first we add a second layer and then i worked on the second copy and  i made it black and white by going to the adjustments and putting the saturation slider all the way to the left causing it to turn white and black.then i grabbed the eraser tool and rubbed away the bits a wanted to change colour so that the original layer seeped through. now i originally had the face,ears and the title erased but like an idiot i accidentally closed the tab which meant i lost it so i quickly went back into and did something little just so i can show abit of process.

Editing can lead to all sorts of problems thou as it can lead to hyper-reality.
 'hyperreality is generally defined as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. It is a postmodern philosopy that deals in part with semiotics, or the study of the signs that surround people in everyday life and what they actually mean'. 

source:http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-hyperreality.htm

People on magazines exist but they are not really there because they have probably been enhanced, as they have been photo edited.

A person is never real on a magazine because as soon as the stars have started to be edited it is no longer them, it’s hype reality.

The problems it can cause with the young team demographics is that especially teenage guys can aspire to be like there favourite celebrity however if that person has been edited that celebrity is no-longer really them,so if they want to be as skinny as kay perry chances are they aspiring to someone that isn't real which can cause problems like low self-self-asteam which is hard to fix as they are looking up at a fake person,that person doesn't exist anywhere in the world.it can also affect men because they can say like i want a girlfriend like that (pointing to a magazine) the chances are that celebrity has been edited therefore essentially they are looking for an avatar a fake person.