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Response to Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label?

"Some think such a law..."

I feel that by having such a law it would make some people realize that none is perfect, and even those who appear to be need a little help.  On another side of this issue I feel that a law like that wouldn't be able to do what people want it to do.  It wouldn't change the ideals of beauty, they would stay the same and that is what the real issue is.  Girls believe that they have to look a certain way in order to be beautiful.  The only thing this law would really do is, say that no one is perfect, but this is still beautiful, and this is still the ideal.  Because of that young girls would still strain, and hurt themselves to look like the retouched images.

Who is the author of a photo.

I believe that the author of a photoshopped image would be the creative director, or the editor, whoever makes the decision of what should be photoshopped, and changed.  The one who decides what to photoshop, decides the overall feeling and mood of the photo, thus they are the ones giving the photo it's meaning.

Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/fashion/03Boyer.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Question 8: Photoshop disaster

In this photo the girl was not origionally holding computer box, it was photoshopped in. You can tell by the way the girls fingers are in relation to the box.

Final Frame in Frame

Photoshop Review

Question 1) Levels, White Balance, Vignetting.  The edits are completed in the order they were written.  First thing needed to be modified is light, so that it is easier to modify colors.  Then white balance so the colors will be the proper tone, and then vignetting is adding a layer over levels, and white balance to dram attention to a certain part of the photo.

Question 2) Move:  V Crop:  C  Brush: B  Text:  T  Mask: Q

Question 3) Select-all: Command A, Inverse Selection: Up-Command I, Deselect selection: Command D.

Question 4) Vignetting: With the brush tool, first have the height of you brush be large enough to touch the bottom and top of the photo without going over, the opacity should be 100%, hardness should be 0%, Mode should be normal, and flow should be 100%. Then press mask, and with the brush create a "potato".  Next press mask again, so the "ants" crawl around your selection.  Then hit the "half-moon" cookie at the bottom of layers and select curves.  Curves should pop up, then change the curves to suit your liking.

Question 5) You start with one layer called "background".

Question 6) Halfmoon cookie, trash can.

Question 7) Click on the eye next to the layer.

Choice Two, Ophelia

1. The woman in white on the black ground.

2. I believe the woman is dead because she looks blue, and is motionless. But if the woman were to be alive she would appear to be experiencing a unique sense of depression, although she is not deliberately sad looking her body placement indicates an unhappiness with her own self.

3. I believe that the photograph was taken in the morning, maybe between 8:30 and 10:30.

4. The light sources are the windows, and the lamps.

5. The environment is a home, maybe bolonging to a lower middle class family.

6. There is a robe on the railing of the stairs, and a pair of slippers on the actual stairs themselves.

7. The female subject does not appear to be wearing shoes.

8. Ophelia is a character in Shakespeares play, Hamlet. Ophelia dies in the end, from climbing a tree when a branch broke, and she drowned in the brook beneath. It is offered that Ophelia actually had comitted suicide.

Story:

One morning the woman tripped off the staircase, an unusual occurance in her otherwise boring morning, her robe then slipped from her hands, and as she fell, she turned over, landing back down on the unforgiving living room floor. Her slippers, left on the stairs where she took her last steps, were a sad reminderer that this woman, once breathing, and brimming with life, now breathes no more.

In her final moments she looked to the sky, and recalled the heartache she had experienced. Laying there, growing colder, and colder, she began to imagine the way things could have been. And with her dying breath she whispered to herself "If only."