Perfect Body Image

     Have you ever heard about how people edit their photos to make their picture look better? For the past few weeks we have been working in Photoshop learning how to fix blemishes, add make-up and change your whole face into someone else’s. I did not realize how much work that it takes just to change someone’s picture to make it look perfect. Even though some pictures do not need to be edited much or even at all but celebrities always have their body changed if their picture is going in a magazine or into the public. We were to choose a celebrity that we wanted to look like and put our face on theirs. I chose to look like Selena Gomez and this is the picture that I used of her.

     As we were working on editing our picture I realized that you have to be careful because if you don’t then your skin will start to look non- realistic. After we worked on each picture very hard they started to look real again and looked like it was meant to be. I feel that it did end up turning out better than I thought it would in the beginning when we first started. I was thinking to myself, there is no way that we can put our face on another person and it turning out looking normal. Once we did this I now realize how fake everyone in the magazines really are and how much work is done on someone so they have the “perfect” body image. I think that this project shows me that no one is perfect, there is something put into everyone to make them look better. I think that if people knew what actually goes into each celebrities face when it is in a magazine then they would not do as many bad things to their skin just to try to look like better, like tanning. Most of them wish that they had better skin so that is why they use Photoshop on a lot of their pictures.

     I really enjoyed doing this project even though it was a lot of work and stressful at times just because I wasn’t for sure on what to do. One thing that I did well on was whitening my teeth and adding my make-up. I believe they both look good because I spent a lot of time on each to make sure they are perfect and looked nice. Then there are also things that we all struggled with as a class and individually. One thing that I had a hard time doing is making sure that after I put the picture of my face on Selena’s was that both of our skin matched. Matching the skin was difficult because there were different parts of her skin that was not the same as the rest. Another thing that I think I could have spent more time on was fixing the redness in my face but because it was so hard to get the colors matched I thought that once I fixed one section the other side would get off balanced.

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A Day in The Life of a Mercy Student

     During the past few classes we have been talking about photo shop and all of the different things that you are able to do.  One of the major things that we have been talking about is the tools that you can use to make your pictures better from the beginning. Also, we learned how to make a collage in photo shop and ways to shape your picture so you are able to make it look nice and fit pictures on the paper. We had to think back to what we learned about the elements of photography so that the pictures we were taking would look superb. A few of the elements that I used while taking my pictures were balance, lines, framing, and angle.  

     In making my collage I edited each of my pictures in some way to make them look better or give them a different affect. In each of my pictures I cropped out everything that was not needed and just added space to the picture. Also, some of my pictures were turned the wrong way so I had to rotate them, so that they were facing the right way. When you take a picture there may not be enough light in the background, but in photo shop you can fix that by just brightening the picture. A picture may have too much light in it and problems like this can be corrected or edited in photo shop. I had to darken one of my pictures because the lighting was so bright and it was causing you not to see the picture as clear. I then changed one of my pictures to black and white just to give it a new color. Black and white does not do much to the picture; however, it just changed the colors of the picture to a subtle black and white. Then one last thing that I did was change the perspective of one of the pictures. When you change the perspective of the picture it gives the picture a new shape and can make it look like it is popping out. There are many more things that you can do to a picture but those are only a few that I chose.