Cropped/Uncropped

In the original, uncropped image of Heidi Klum the photographer chose to take a vertical picture in order to capture the super model's pregnant belly. The photographer made a conscious effort to take a full-body picture of Klum because he/she was aware that the public would be interested in seeing that she was pregnant and still glamorous. Also, when this photo is cropped before you see Klum's stomach there is really no punctum or emotional element to this photo, as discussed in The Practices of Looking. The person who chose this picture cropped it in such a way as to include the informational element of telling the viewers that Heidi Klum was pregnant. There is certainly an emotion elicited when seeing a beautiful pregnant woman; opposed to simply seeing her upper half; the cropped version doesn't give the viewer anything unique to think or feel.

Final Edited Collage

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are lectures, performances and demonstrations
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The message is the passing along of ideas and information that will improve
and better the lives of the content consumers. TED’s message is knowledge.

Photoshop Content vs Message

The content of Photoshop are the editing tools such as the lasso, the paint tool, the scaling and rotating capabilities, the blur tool, etc. The content of Photoshop are all the things that allow one to change and alter an image.

The message is what someone does with Photoshop. So, the way an image is altered or how something looks after it is edited. The message is represented in how the image is transformed or presented once it has gone through the content of Photoshop.

First Photoshop Troubles

Initially, I had trouble creating a background. Photoshop doesn't give you a canvas to start from; you have to make it yourself and at first, I wasn't really sure how to do that. Once I figured out how to create a white background, I wasn't sure how large or small to make it for this assignment. My final result is a weird rectangle.

Once I made my oddly shaped background, I tried to blur the edges of my photos, which I had some trouble with at first as well. I highlighted the image with the magic wand and clicked inverse and then feather, but nothing happened. After messing around with it for a long time I eventually figured out how to feather the images, but, I'm not really sure exactly what I did. I'm also, still not totally happy with how they all came out.

Message vs Content PS Assignment 1

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