What has digital manipulation done to the people’s perspective?

I think that digital manipulation programs have changed people’s perspective on a lot of things in today’s advertisements and photos. Most photos and advertisements have been changed way too much in fashion and advertisements. There is a website that I like to look at every once in awhile, its called www.photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com it shows some horrible ways that Photoshop has been used. For example a Domino’s pizza box shows a person with six fingers, and it’s quite noticeable when a person has six fingers. This website is a good website for future web designers and photographers, it will show you what not to do. There is also a video on YouTube called “Dove Evolution” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U) it show how much a model goes through before a photo shoot and how much Photoshop does after. With this video I believe that there should not be that much work done to a model just to make them pretty. When you see this video, it will show you how the model is made to look taller and skinnier, it is just sad. After reading some of the comments after the Dove video I saw that someone wrote this; “We need to see more of this. Reality. Our females are being destroyed the moment they are born. They are convinced to hold themselves to impossible standards to the point that they are completely hidden even from themselves.” I completely agree with this comment, I believe there is a natural beauty and it should be shown in advertisements, there shouldn’t be a computer program that makes a person pretty. Most of the younger generations are concerned more and more with their looks, and even some of the older generations.
So why change the looks of the models to make them thinner or taller or whatever, all it does is make the generations want to be like them. If a person sees a photo of their favorite actor or actress and there has been a lot of digital manipulation done to them the actor or actress, that means to me at least, that it isn’t real. For example there is a Marissa Miller photo from Victoria Secret’s magazine, it shows her with a hand on her shoulder with nobody behind her. That is just bad digital manipulation or the person was just lazy. So if a person sees someone that isn’t real yet they want to be like that actor or actress. So say a young girl sees a photo of her favorite actress and likes her so much she wants to be just like her, If the photographer “photoshoped” the actress to make her skinnier and the young girl sees her skinny she is going to go on a diet or do some unhealthy things to become skinny. That is not right in my eyes, I believe that people should see models, actors or actresses naturally not with hours of work done to them. I also believe that people are too reliant on digital manipulation programs; they should be able to take a model and make him or her beautiful just by taking a picture. Even when going to school they teach you about digital manipulation programs and some teachers rely on the program for their business. So I’m curious, what do people think about digital manipulation? Do they think that we should use it all the time or do they think that we should be able to take a model and make them beautiful just by taking a picture?