I was reading the article on Digital Remixing and decided to check out some of the websites in the article. Worth1000.com is a photoshopping remix website. This site has some really cool pictures on it. There is a section on hybrid produce in which people combine 2 pictures of fruits or vegetables and make a new one. Some of these "new fruits" look really amazing and so natural you could almost believe they are real. And they look really appetizing - like the melonana (watermelon + banana). It's amazing how creative people can be!!! They also have contests and people can judge which photoshop pictures are the best. Here's the link for this specific section on their website: http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2853&display=photoshop
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Nice exploration work, Christina! funnily enough, I logged on just now to post a link to a photoshop tutorial I just found that looks really good (I haven't had a chance to try it out yet for myself, but it looks like a really useful guide to photoshopping, oddly enough, a green apply!
Here's the link:
http://psdtuts.com/drawing/how-to-create-a-delicious-green-apple-illustration/
to photoshop, you needs software like Adobe Photoshop or Paintshop Pro--or you could try the free online photoshopping software at Splashup.com
eeep--let me try that URL again:
http://psdtuts.com/drawing/
how-to-create-a-delicious-green-apple
-illustration/
When you copy and paste it into your web browser go-to window, make sure you grab the whole thing.
Hey Christina,
I love photoshop. Once you start playing/exploring it it becomes SO addicting. It is unbelievable what you can do on it. I mean how much you can manipulate a picture is amazing.
If you take it one step further you begin to realize how easy it is for publications to do remixes themselves in order to sell/promote something. For example National Geographic Society/Magazine which has been around for 120 years. They have followed all trends of the digital photography world. They are very popular for their photojournalism yet now that they can manipulate the pictures they take abroad- how much of what we see is real? In fact while searching their website I found a blog that someone created which people discuss how they feel about manipulating images such as these. http://ngm.typepad.com/digital_photography/2008/01/is-photography.html
Furthermore, think about all the gossip stories we LOVE to read. All the headline stores of who got fat and who got too thin. After exploring photoshop its very easy to see how journalists skew/create a story with photos that act as false evidence to attract readers who will buy their magazines.
On hotel websites etc we see pictures that are suppose attract us there. With a few simple clicks in photoshop you can transfer a more appealing beach and call it their own.
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