25th April 2012

Before

After

During this lessson, I edited the image of the word 'california' that has been typed in a hollywood style. I edited out the background in order to allow it to be placed over images without a white background getting in the way. I also changed the colour from black to white as the original hollywood sign is in white and so, to stick with the theme, I changed the colour. To make the letters stand out, I used the line tool in order to allow the individual letters to stand out seperately and yet together at the same time. I then put the before and after images into my AO2 document and descibed how they had been edited and how I can justify the reasons for editing.

20th April 2012

Airbrushing

I believe that airbrushing should not be used in magazines that are sold to the public. This is because it gives young kids and teenagers an unrealistic view on what the average person looks like, whether it be weight, wrinkles or the smoothness of their legs. On average, most teenagers will feel unhappy with their weight and looks because of the images they see on the internet or in magazines and this is due to the fact that they do not look like the images they are so often surrounded by. This causes them to feel unhappy about themselves and therefore want to change their body. The consequences of this are annorexia, bullemia and in certain cases, suicide and over doses. However, in some cases, I believe that the editing that is done to certain images can be helpful. In a recent article of 'Elle' magazine, a skinny woman had her bones airbrushed out and her shoulders fattened so that they she looked as if she had a more healthy weight. This should encourage children that a healthy weight is better.

I think that there should be a symbol used, such as the recyling symbol, that shows the image has been altered in some way. Either that, or editing should not take place at all unless it is to be encouraging healthiness.

18th April 2012

Today we sourced the assets that we are going to use in the rest of the unit. I found this task quite easy as I had been given a website that contained royalty free images and so did not have to worry about collecting information based on whether or not it was copyright and if I had to ask permission to use the image or buy it. There were a few images that I used google to find, and so I had to check the website in order to find if it was copyright but that didn't take long and I made sure I complied with the law in this respect.