Why do some people like to Photoshop things/people out of their images?

[Anonymous]

Sometimes, I see posts on another site asking to edit out this person from an image. I don't understand why people want to do this. They are altering reality and I don't understand why someone would want to do that. Pleasant or not, that photo captured what happened.

Also, I find that a selling point for a phone (Pixie) would be to remove people/objects from pictures weird too. It's weird to me that both a company/consumer could see this as a good thing.

I feel like the image now represents 'falsified data'. I wonder if future historians will be able to rely on our images.

[strateguy632]

Because need permission to publish people.

[Asker]

I think this is a valid point, but why remove a person and also autogenerate a background that is hard to tell is fake? Why not just remove the part of the picture that has that person in them?

Also, for context, I have seen posts of Reddit with images asking for people to r

[Asker]

Also, for context, I have seen posts on Reddit with images asking to remove a person from image in which person is aware of camera and looking towards the lens.

[Asker]

E g. Mother in law

[Asker]

Who is trying to be a part of the picture

[Anonymous]

Better question is why do you care what other people do?

[Asker]

You seem like someone who does this and feels personally attacked.
I already answered you question, if you read carefully. I seek truth.

[Emmytexrex]

I don't know