Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Exploring Adobe Photoshop

Today we will be exploring the PhotoShop application and experimenting with the tools.

We will be using the following images:
(Right-click the image and save to your computer.)
Below is a video (from Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty) which demonstrates how much the print media (magazines, billboards, etc.) rely on PhotoShop.  It also does a great job of demonstrating why young people today have difficulty living up to the images they see in magazines and advertising.  Even supermodels get PhotoShopped before they are "good enough".

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