My "Perfect" Body

            The past few weeks in computer class have been exciting to say the least. Lately we have been studying Photoshop. We learned how the tools work and how to Photoshop photos. One thing in particular that we learned about was how magazines and ads in general photoshop images to make the model look perfect. We saw many videos showing how these companies and photographers use Photoshop. We were assigned a project. The project was we were to have a picture taken of ourselves and we didn’t know about the picture so we did not have time to fix hair makeup or anything, and we were to “fix” it in photoshop and we were to paste our face onto a celebrity body the celebrity I used was Ke$ha. Below are my results before and after.



Before



after



                                       

        As you can tell, these pictures are totally different but they are of the same person. You almost cannot tell that it’s the same person. I feel that the overall transformation looks fake. I don’t like the way it looks. I don’t like it because it isn’t me. This does not change my perception of magazines this just confirms what I already knew; the pictures you see on the cover and inside of every magazine is not real. No one really looks like that. This tells me that today’s perception of body image is shallow and misleading. Everyone has something they don’t like about themselves, no one is perfect but the way some magazines present the pictures makes it seem like you have to be skinny, and wear three pounds of makeup to look pretty. I think I did a good job photo shopping and airbrushing out the imperfections on my face and adding makeup. I could have done a better job of pasting the face on the body and blending the skin tones.

The Circle Of Mercy Is Timeless

       In computer we learned to use photoshop. We did a project entitled "The Day in The Life of a Mercy Student." This project deplicts the daily activites of a girl that goes to mercy. We had to take pictures and make them into a collage and edit them in photoshop. The first useful tool I used was the crop tool. The crop tool crops pictures. It is useful because somethings that get in the picture take up space so I could cut these out. Another useful tool was the redeye tool. It made the photo look better and cleaner. The most useful tool I used was the transform tool. It made the picture bigger smaller or rotated the picture.
    The another thing we learned during this project was the elements of photography. we used them in the pictures me took. We demonstrated how they made a difference in the picture and how it looked. When you use the elements it makes the picture look neater. I'm really glad we got to learn about Photoshop and how we can use it. Below is my collage.