Photography, the impact

War photographer James Nachtwey accepting his 2007 TED prize, shows his work and was asked to give a talk on photo that bear witness. James was born of the 60's who has help recorded history through his photographs, to bring change and awareness to people to hidden audience who needs to know more that what is just show on the Media TV by creating a story with innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era James has continue to show how photojournalism can change things and the course of society. 

Scource link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKZhNK_pHw

Who are professionals in the creative industries?

http://dictionary.reference.com define professional as following an occupation as a means of livehood or for a gain.

A professional is someone who give their lives into doing something that they have eventually become a "pro" at doing it, a professional doesn't just take software and use them, they choose and test these softwares or they just create their own way to achieve their results, and a professional needs to be recognize by a certain organization that certificates that profession.
So who are these professionals in the creative industries? Creative industries in where people who want their live in a more creative and beautiful way. To ease their everyday living with creative thinking, people like photographers, photojournalist, graphic designers and artist. An very good example to look back into history is Paul Rand, a art director who designed the apple logo and the IBM logo.

people like Steve Jobs and more.

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Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

Erik Johansson was invited to give a talk on Impossible photography he made to create a story behind or how it started, brilliant things that happen, an idea rather a moment, he said. Infusing idea and with the use of tools like Photoshop we can create something that is out from the norm, an idea which is so impossible it seems possible.

Losing ourselves after retouched?

Photoshop is a tool for us to do photo editing, but sometimes tools can be used to an extreme extend where photo are manipulated to an extend where the original subject model is totally modify to create a different feel and for the sake of meeting certain needs and audience's requirements, but for a normal context, perfect beauty is not easy to achieve, millions and millions are spend for a celebrity to prevent themselves from aging.

What more a modern citizen have to do for them to achieve that perfect beauty shown on the billboard advertisement? Below are some examples of how fashion industry change the way they want their audience to see them.

The effect of retouched photos shown to public has come to point that people starts to crave what is rather created than knowing or appreciating the real beauty is. For fashion industry, perfection is everything, from being pretty to fabulous, and to portray that perfection, tools like Photoshop can deliver outcome, but being perfect something just too hard to archive, in a daily life context, media like TV advertisements and beauty products being sold nowadays. It has affected modern day teenagers way of portraying beauty, but putting on makeup at a early stage and buying beauty products to maintain their beauty because they feel the need to. Above samples are photos manipulated to show a different range of outcome after editing, showing a total different person presented from the outcome. Ultimately under all those makeup and editing put into changing the person's final photo does change the fact that we are still humans that will age eventually, the fact that not accepting we're gonna one day age and die doesn't change after we chose to edit those photos to become perfect human being. 

Source link: http://petapixel.com/2013/07/10/dont-let-the-retouched-photographs-of-the-world-affect-your-own-self-image/

What is Photoshop

Photoshop is basically a tool for creative professionals to edit, correct, adjust, enhance and to manipulate the photos or to create something imaginary, from a normal photo to a photo that can be use to present different media, tone and mood. In the fashion industry models and celebrities, are often touched up to perfection before showing it to the big screen for their audiences to view, and below are some examples showing before and after Photoshopped. Here are some examples of uses of Photoshop by professionals in the creative industry using Photoshop to make celebrities look thinner and younger.The left is before and the right is a after result.

Jennifer Lawrence, before and after Photshopped.

Jennifer Lawrence, known for her role in Hunger game as a confident woman who defend her sister from being chose to compete in the hunger game, has been trim down from her masculine look to a more delicate and feminine look, by the editor.

Source link:http://www.chilloutpoint.com/misc/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop.html

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Brief History of Photoshop

Photoshop, how it all began.

JOHN KNOLL

THOMAS KNOLL

 Started during the late 1920s, by two brothers by the name of Thomas and John Knoll when they begin designing and writing an program for image editing, Thomas Knoll known as a PhD student in University of Michigan majoring in computer vision, written a program in the 1978 to transfigure and show digital images. Thomas's brother working for the Industrial of Light & Magic, find very handy for photos transfiguration , but the program itself was develop by Thomas and John for personal uses, it wasn't intended for commercial. At Apil 1989, "Display" was bought over and sealed by art director Russell Brown, Adobe.

Source link: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

What if Superheroes used Instagram

"What if Superheroes Used Instagram", showing a series of Instagram photos and selfie post by Superheroes like, Superman, Ironman, Spiderman, and Batman. Nowadays, Instagram has affected so may people, which in my previous post I mention that in one year, Instagram has themselves an amount of 130 million users sharing and posting new feeds on stuff they care about and the other part of the world, their world that they want to share about. Okay back to talking Superheroes using Instagram, okay, lets put ti this way, what if our world superheroes does exist and what would their daily life be, with all the technology like, iPhone, android, iPad etc. How crime busters like themselves are using these tools to let people know what their doing in their daily live. This shows how popular Instagram has gone, even Superheroes uses them to show feed about their daily lives. These series of photos was done by a social media intern and a artist from the Comediva website has come out with a series of photos imagining what would it be like if Superheroes were to use Instagram.

Scource link: http://www.comediva.com/if-superheroes-ha