"Perfect Body Image" Photoshop

  I used Selena Gomez's picture to help Photoshop my face. I feel like the overall transformation of the picture makes me look way different. The 'New' me looks like a complete different person. There are a lot of things on my original picture of me that I had to change. I had to add make up and cover up blemishes that were on my face. I also made my nose smaller.
  I used to think that everyone in the magazines actually looked "perfect". I now know that this is not true, and how easy it is to make that "perfect body" to make someone look good. Some people in the magazines might not look anything like what they actually look like in person. I feel that ads in magazines are liars now because maybe their product, such as Proactive, does not actually help your skin as well as they say. The people that make Proactive probably Photoshop the pimples and zits off of the person's face to make their product look like it actually works really well.
  In our society, our image of the perfect body is deranged because we all think that we need to look like these girls in the magazines, when in fact, they do not even look like that. Girls are pressured into wanting to look like what magazines say as "pretty", but no one can look like this because it is all fake.
  One thing that I think I did pretty well is the placing of my face on hers. It was pretty easy to tell where the position of my face fit almost perfectly on hers. The other thing I feel like I did good on was editing my face before I put it on her face. This was when I cleared all my blemishes, put make up on my face, and whitened my teeth. I think that I could have spent more time on making my face blend more with hers. I did not use my eyebrows in the picture. I used her eyebrows.

A Day in the Life of a Mercy Student

 

For the past few weeks our class has been working on the Photoshop program. We learned many tools that are very helpful in making nice, clean photos. In this project, we were to make a collage that shows a day in the life of a Mercy student. In almost every photo, I used a tool to make the picture better. For example, in the picture at the top with my friend Abigail reading a book, I made the scar on her leg disappear. I did this by using the patch tool. I used her regular skin color around her scar to make it cover up her scar. Now it looks as if she never even had a scar. My other friend, Haley, I took her photo at the podium and also the picture of her at the board, I used the dodge tool on the pictures because they were a little too dark. The board picture, I turned down the opacity so see through her picture and kind of the picture behind it. In the picture with Haley at the water fountain, the picture started out really yellow. I went to color and balance and took out the yellow mid tones and put more blue into it. Then, I went to highlights and put more green and blue into it, to make a less yellow tint. I also used the burn tool on her back because the light made her back white. When I used the burn tool, it turned her shirt back to its actual color, yellow. Last but not least, the picture of Haley at the lockers. I brightened the picture and also made it have more contrast to make the picture look sharper. I also added a little cyan color to it.

Those are some of the elements that can be used in Photoshop. There are many more to use and they will help make better pictures. Photoshop is a good program to use for making collages or just to help make photos look crisp and professional.