Photos that lie

I chose this picture because I wanted to edit one of my friends pictures. This picture was taken by Ricardo Rivera, a Honduran photographer. First I lowered the brightness of the photo and added more contrast to the picture. After that I changed the hue and saturation moving them up and down until I got the color I wanted. Then, I changed the color of her skin tone giving her a more tan skin color. Using the paint brush tool I painted over her earring making it disappear and then chose a picture of a diamond earring from Google and using the magneto lasso tool I moved it to where her previous earring was. Later, I used the smart brush tool and chose the lime time tool to make eyes green. In the arrangements  panel I was able to change the shade of green and make it to a more credible green color. With all these touch ups I was happy with my new edited picture of my friend. The manipulation is harmful because I am portraying to other people a wrong image of my friend. This picture relates to my article because my article talks about how manipulating photos gives a wrong image of something.

The article I read was called "Whats in a picture" and was about manipulating images, what they are and their effects. There was a quote in the article that really caught my attention. This was the answer to why is it wrong to manipulate an image: "If you misrepresent your data, you are deceiving your colleagues, who expect and assume basic honesty—that is, that 

each image you present is an accurate representation of what you actually observed." This really interested me because this is the reason why every woman believes what they see on magazines because we are used to taking a picture and just uploading to our computer not making changes to ourselves. This is why magazines have everyone fooled because people are expecting to see how their favorite actor or actress looks and what can they do to look like her. 

Now a lot of companies are doing campaigns to show the world how this images are altered and why we should believe everything we see on the magazines or internet.

"What's in a Picture? The Temptation of Image Manipulation — JCB." Whats in a Picture? The Tempation of Manupulation. The Rockefeller University Press, 6 July 2004. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://jcb.rupress.org/content/166/1/11.full>.