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I’m not sure if everyone is familiar with Pexels, a stock photo library filled with thousands of beautiful stock images. Primarily high quality photography grade images, and not just generic stock images. Out of all the stock photo libraries on the web Pexels is certainly one of the most quality. As a WordPress developer I have become aware that I am not the only one who has caught onto this, because a majority of the stock images used in WordPress themes are Pexels images. That being said, many web developers and photoshop editors will be excited to learn about the new Photoshop Plugin For Pexels. As described on their site, the plugin is designed to allow editors to seamlessly have Pexels images available for use in Photoshop. Users can easily navigate through different categories and select a desired image on their photoshop platform. Pexels will conveniently sync the photos that you have liked on the website with your plugin so you can easily navigate to photos that have stood out to you in the past. The plugin is probably one of many to come from both Pexels and other stock photo websites. It allows for seamless integration making designing website and images way easier. The plugin comes with a $2 subscription fee if you purchase for the year, or you can pay $4 per month if you go month by month.

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So we all know how awesomely amazing photoshop is and the unbound capabilities of this tool, and how we can contort and distort just about anything. However the role of photoshop in our mainstream media is perhaps a little disheartening. Due to the capabilities of photoshop, people are now able to dramatically change the images of celebrities and front page models to look even more stunning then they already are. Not even the best looking and most fit of all of them is suitable enough to not be mildly altered by the photoshop editors behind the big magazine brands. Most of the models and stars make little fuss of this, and take it as part of the industry now. However some stars are down right furious with the distortions these editors are making to their bodies. Not too long ago Zendaya, the Disney channel star aired her frustration with edits that had taken place on her cover photo for Modeliste magazine. From the picture you can see that the editing personnel dramatically altered the size of here hips to make them appear skinnier. Zendaya was outraged by this alteration and the body shaming effect it could have on her fans and others who would see it. She took to social media quickly after and called out these actions in public.

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