Media-Shop

Have you ever wondered how celebrities look beautiful in every magazine ad? All i have to say is one word: Photoshop. After working on a project for a week, I have finally come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as the perfect body image because it is all fake thanks to this program. I used my personal picture and transformed myself to look like Jennifer Aniston. Here is my before picture:

After using many tools on Photoshop, I merged my face onto Jennifer Aniston's. Here is my after picture:

I feel as if the picture came out much better than I thought it would. It just goes to show people that anyone can transform images and make them look perfect. Everyone tries to look like celebrities, but in all reality, celebrities don't even look like that! No one does.

I think that I applied the eye shadow and mascara very well, but I believe I could improve on the actual color of my face and the matching of my color to Aniston's color because parts of the face are not blended well together. Other than a few minor changes that could have been made after a little practice, I think this picture resembles something that would be shown in the media because of all the touch-ups.

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A Day in the Life of Me





Throughout two class periods, I worked on making a collage that depicts a day in the life of a Mercy student. I wanted the collage to be bright and colorful because each day is full of happiness and joy. I used a number of tools on Photoshop such as the cropping tool, the hue/ saturation tool, black and white, gradient map, selective color, and the magic wand. Those are just some of the main tools that I used while making this project. I wanted to create the collage centered around the Mercy crest because I believe that it helps Mercy students remember how fortunate we are that we are able to receive a Catholic education. When I was taking the pictures to use in the collage, I kept in mind to avoid mergers. One element of photography that I used was simplicity in which I took the picture of the Crucifix.  

Photoshop is a great program to use when dealing with pictures and it is fun to mess around with all the different tools. It is an exploration of technology that opens your imagination above and beyond regular editing.