This week lesson the Visual Literacy project with photo shop was one that I had anxiety about. Not because I did not believe I would be able to complete the assignment, but after looking at the 21 page directions I scratched my head a little. Ok a lot. I had never used photo shop before so it was a new experience for me. I have to say I enjoyed working on the photo shop project of the athletic shoes. I do not own photo shop but whenever I need to create a project I will be able to go to one of the computer labs on campus and work on some of my personal work as well.
Photo shop is a tool I will use as a production student to complete many project. I currently have an entrepreneur class that requires me to create photos for an assignment of a company that I would possibly start. Each week I have to turn in a visual assignment and have been using power point and save as a jpeg. I really like the fact that I can create layers to complete my projects. There will be other class in the production department that will require me to create project using photo shop.
Photo shop is something that I will be able to use not only in my major, but also to create personal projects for myself. I like this lesson, because being able to take photos and enhance their voice is pretty cool. The Picture This: Visual Literacy Article states that “By looking at and studying photographs with your students, you will help them better understand the complexities of their world.” I do not believe I ever look at photos that way but it makes so much more sense. I recently attended a funeral of colleague’s wife and they had picture of her everywhere. I remember thinking I don’t like taking pictures. Her husband believed it was important to tell the story of her life through pictures, that there was a fifteen minutes videography on her entire life. After completing this lesson I do understand how complex our world is, but I now also understand just how that story can be told with pictures. That is why during disasters like Katrina in New Orleans and the earthquake in Haiti the pictures speak volumes to the agony that took place. The photo ideas were good to see things from a different perspective. The many different place the monkeys where layered on, shows how creative one is allowed to be when implementing visual literacy.
The video that I have chosen is a YouTube video of Windows 7 Mac Theme Background: Photoshop Tutorial.
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