Photoshop is a graphics editing program. Photoshop uses different tools to add, or take away, from pictures. For instance, it uses a liquify tool to pull in or drag out something in a photo; a pucker tool which shrinks something; and a patch tool that replaces one part of something with another part of the picture that you want it to look like. Photoshop can also change the colors and backgrounds of pictures. Photoshop can do a lot.
One thing photoshop is known for is that it can distort images or improve them. Photoshop can make a fat person look thin and can make a thin person look fat. It can also make a pretty person ugly and an ugly person pretty. Photoshop makes people look like something that they're not.
For example, it can make people look like monsters or mythical creatures, or even vampires. I posted this youtube video up because it shows the steps used in photoshop that turns Bella (a character in the book "Twlight") into a vampire....a human being into a vampire. So, as much as I LOVE photoshop, most of the things (and people) that are photoshopped aren't real. Yes, they might be a real person, but it's not the REAL image of the person, it's touched up.
hmm...Maybe thats why our society is so obsessed with perfection...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Multimedia
Multimedia is a program or a product that contains still pictures, moving pictures, animations, sounds, text, motion pictures, or video. It is considered multimedia as long as two of these things are combined.
Multimedia is used for many different things. It can be used for advertisement, PSA, telling a story, music, education, entertainment, business, science and so many more. You can find forms of multimedia on the interent, on TV, on billboards, on street signs, on pretty much anything.
For example, I decided to use "The Doritos Slap" commercial as a way to show you a form of multimedia. In this commercial the women's son slaps her date for looking at his mom. This uses multimedia because it shows a 'moving' video and sound of the women, a boy and the man. It also uses text and graphics representing the Doritos at the end for advertisement.
Multimedia is used for many different things. It can be used for advertisement, PSA, telling a story, music, education, entertainment, business, science and so many more. You can find forms of multimedia on the interent, on TV, on billboards, on street signs, on pretty much anything.
For example, I decided to use "The Doritos Slap" commercial as a way to show you a form of multimedia. In this commercial the women's son slaps her date for looking at his mom. This uses multimedia because it shows a 'moving' video and sound of the women, a boy and the man. It also uses text and graphics representing the Doritos at the end for advertisement.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Kids and the Internet
It is truely amazing the fascination that kids have with the internet. Now-a-days, for fun kids would rather be inside surfing the internet than outside surfing waves. They would rather be in chat rooms playing games with other kids via screen and microphone than outside running around and playing. A lot of kids are more internet savy than their own parents. This generation of kids is the first generation to come of age using the internet. They have created their on virtual society.
Not only do kids play games and chat to people on the internet, they create profiles and blogs. Some go as far as to create a different person and profile, so as to mislead viewers. Many kids are secretive about their profiles to their parents and family memebers; they will keep things from them and try and avoid letting them see their profiles and blogs.
A lot of kids spend more time on the internet than doing anything else. Kids as young as 5-7 are using the internet and becoming "friends" with people on gaming websites. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are social networks that any aged person can create. Some kids put too much info up on these websites or spend too much of their time surfing around on these sites.
This YouTube video interviews a few different kids and asks them different things about their internet experiences. I think it's very interesting what the kids have to say. For example, the kids are asked what they would do without the internet and you get respsones like; they would be annoyed, they would be bored and they wouldnt have a way to socialize. I also think it's interesting that some of them dont have a time limit when playing and surfing on the internet. One boy even said he spends 4 hours a night on the internet.
Not only do kids play games and chat to people on the internet, they create profiles and blogs. Some go as far as to create a different person and profile, so as to mislead viewers. Many kids are secretive about their profiles to their parents and family memebers; they will keep things from them and try and avoid letting them see their profiles and blogs.
A lot of kids spend more time on the internet than doing anything else. Kids as young as 5-7 are using the internet and becoming "friends" with people on gaming websites. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are social networks that any aged person can create. Some kids put too much info up on these websites or spend too much of their time surfing around on these sites.
This YouTube video interviews a few different kids and asks them different things about their internet experiences. I think it's very interesting what the kids have to say. For example, the kids are asked what they would do without the internet and you get respsones like; they would be annoyed, they would be bored and they wouldnt have a way to socialize. I also think it's interesting that some of them dont have a time limit when playing and surfing on the internet. One boy even said he spends 4 hours a night on the internet.
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