Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is now popularly used today with the technology provided to us. There are programs out there, such as Photoshop that helps the average person out there have an easy time navigating through the program to manipulate photos. Photo manipulation is the process of image editing to illustrate an deception or illusion. Photo manipulation is now used mostly everywhere to enhance the picture. Photographs taken of celebrities posted on magazines have to be manipulated, so it makes it look outstanding or cause an illusion for other reasons, such as advertising a product or service.

For this assignment I had used Photoshop CS4 and Picasa 3.

Photo 1: Picture was taken at the CN Tower. It was a foggy day as you can see from the sky it was really grayish. The photo focuses on Toronto city landscape pointing towards the Lake-shore West side. At the far Center-back you can see Ontario Place, on the far center-left is the Bishop International Airport, and then a bunch of condos & GO train tracks.

 

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The changes I did was made the fog gammas higher, so there is a lot of focus there. The rest of the picture I had made the contrast darker. The buildings, the lake and etc. are all darker. I decided to make the change, because the bright fog was like heaven. If you start from the bottom of the picture going slowly up it gets brighter slowly as you go up. It is like those movies where there is people stuck in a tunnel in pitch darkness and the lights resembles freedom.

Photo 2: A picture of a replica Stanley Cup at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

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(Edited)

The first change I did was the lighting. I made the floor darker and the black stand darker. On the left and right side there is a shade of black also. This makes the appearance of the Stanley Cup more focused, because it is the center of attention. The Stanley Cup is one of the hardest trophies to earn in the National Hockey League (NHL), so I made it stand out more and brighten it and darken the place around it, so it is precious and meaningful.

Photo 3: Picture is taken at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada. The event is a baseball game showing the Toronto Blue Jays versing their opponent.

(Original)

(Edited)

The first thing I did was crop the top of the image. I removed the big sun light that was coming into the Rogers Centre. I removed the sun light glare, so it would not be the centre of attention, as that glare may have the viewers looking there instead of where I am trying to make them look instead. The Blue Jays Player, Jose Bautista, had hit a home run. I made the field dark, except where the ball was over, which was bright green area. I added the text "Home Run !!!" also indicating it was a home run for the viewer.

To conclude, this was my first time ever editing photos. It was fun using Photoshop and Picasa 3 to help me edit the photos that I had taken from events and places I had attended. The editing of the photos made the meaning of the photo more meaningful.