So far I have learned a good deal in Digital Design and Animation I. I have learned about things like the elements and principles of design and compositional techniques. I have also learned about and explored Adobe Photoshop. I hope to take what I have learned and use it frequently outside of school.
One of my main interests is film. I can use a lot of what I have learned when making personal films. Compositional techniques are vastly important, as they are used by any good filmmaker. Before starting DDA I, I already knew some of these techniques, but my knowledge on them has expanded now. I can now use these techniques when composing shots. A greater knowledge of both the elements and the principles of design will also help when designing shots and other things. Photoshop will come in handy in many ways involving film. I can use it to create stills. I can also use it to make promotional pictures and posters. I can also use Photoshop in ways that don’t relate to film. I can use it to edit photographs. Even though we have moved past using photoshop in class, I might use it recreationally. I will probably colorize images, because I enjoy it a lot. These might be old images of musicians and like people, or old family photos. I can also use photoshop to help design things like family Christmas Cards. If I make things of that sort, I can utilize compositional techniques to make them visually appealing. Evidentially, there are a lot of ways I can use what I have learned outside of class. All of the tools and techniques we have learned are very useful.
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Photoshop has been around for over thirty years, and it has greatly impacted our society. Its impacts are both negative and positive.
One way photoshop has impacted society is its influence on the modeling industry. Photoshop has been used to alter models and give people an unrealistic idea of what they could, and even should, look like. A survey done on women in 2013 found that 15% of 18-24 year olds surveyed believed altered images of models were not photoshopped. This shows many take these images to be real and therefore achievable. The survey also found that many people felt uncomfortable with their body, which could be attributed to Photoshop. Photoshop has also contributed to misinformation. A well photoshopped image can not be distinguished from an unaltered one. Therefore, when it is seen by itself or accompanying an article it seems irrefutable. I myself have seen many photoshopped images made of celebrities tweeting ridiculous things. The same can be said of news articles. Though these are intended for comedic purposes, and aren’t to be believed, some think them real. I myself have sometimes been forced to fact check well photoshopped news articles and tweets to see if they were real. While many of its impacts on society can be described as detrimental, Photoshop has helped society in multiple ways. It has made photo manipulation available to the public. It is an extremely valuable tool to designers, photographers, and people of other professions. As I briefly mentioned earlier, Photoshop can be used to create comedic images. Photoshop can also be used as an art form. Artists can use it to make images that are more realistic than they might be if they painted them or drew them. In the end, whether for better or for worse, Photoshop has had a great impact on society. Few computer programs can pay claim to that.
Vagianos, Alanna. “Proof We Still Need To Talk About Photoshop.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 29 Nov. 2013, m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4350263. I haven’t been using Photoshop for very long, and I only consider myself to be somewhat familiar with the program. I have enjoyed almost all things I have done in Photoshop, and have liked using many different tools and techniques. So far, my favorite technique that I have used is colourizing images through blend modes. I enjoyed adding an extra layer to old black and white photos. I enjoyed taking black and white images of musicians I liked and adding colour to them. I feel like it can add an extra sense of depth to them. In my opinion, colourization helps people relate to older photos. The colour makes them seem more similar to something from our time. I also like how I can decide what colour things might be. Colour is important to the mood an image gives. Thus, when I colourize an image, I can make the picture better reflect the mood I think the image should give off. The image above is one I colourized, and one can see how I used colours that may not have necessarily been extremely accurate to give the picture some character. I think the most important tool is any tool designed for selection. Without a way of selection, it would be impossible to do a great deal of things. There are a fair amount of tools made for selection. In the short time in which I have been using Photoshop, I have become rather partial to the Quick Select tool. Other selection tools include the magic wand, and the various types of lassos. While using Photoshop, I find the tools I typically use the most are selection tools. Selection tools allow you to manipulate certain areas of an image while keeping the others the same.
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AuthorI'm interested in film and animation. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools.
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