This week, photographer and TikToker Caroline Ross shared a viral video on TikTok as she aimed to make her followers shrewd and knowledgeable by disclosing how ad campaigns and celebrities handle their pictures.
In the recent viral video, a swimming pool shoot with media personality Kim Kardashian was examined by Caroline Ross. The photographer quickly noted the alterations made by the editor of Kardashian.
In the Know reported, the video clip which collected views of 7.4 million where Ross challenges TikTok users to test their “media literacy skills” and analyzes how editors had altered Kardashian’s photo.
The photographer was perplexed by the desire of the star to Photoshop her trapezoid-shaped muscles yet conjectured that editing them out “maybe made her neck look smaller.”
It was evidently revealed that Kardashian had edited the photograph, where Ross pointed to the smooth patch of water directly behind the star’s neck, which noticed a warping of the image.
Then Ross used the Liquify tool in Photoshop to replace the photo and show the look of the image without editing.
As she uses the Liquify tool on the image of Kardashian, it is explained by Ross how “the water reflection in the background starts to look a lot more natural and you don’t have that warped effect.”
As the image is corrected by Ross, she reveals what the unedited photo looks like in reality and obviously it becomes clear that the picture of Kardashian is manipulated.
Ross even compares the Instagram post to a “Behind the scenes” footage of Kardashian’s photoshoot as additional proof. The photographer notes that “you can see her neck and trapezoids” in the footage which is different from the social media image of Kardashian.
TikTok users acclaimed the photographer for teaching them “media literacy” with multiple viewers commenting that they had never actually noticed Kardashian’s Photoshopping of her trapezius muscles in her pictures.
“The fact that I would never have noticed but it’s painfully obvious after the fact,” a TikTok user writes.
Another remarks, “Well this explains why I never like my shoulder in pictures.”
Besides, another TikTok user praised Ross saying that it is very significant that viewers perceive the Kardashians social media posts are “all just illusions.”
