Sarah’s Filtered Image

Starting with the Manatee picture, I used the sharpen tool, the lens render tool, and lastly the tiles from the stylistic filter. The quote I picked was from “Teach yourself Postmodernism” because it captures the uncanny/modern vibe I was trying to express. The manatee image alone has a feeling of serenity and tranquility. Using the tranquil scene as a backdrop,  I  altered the image by overexposing it, distorting it, and breaking it into pieces. The text that I added is a commentary on the transition of art from Modernism to Postmodernism. Artists such as Warhol and Dada challenged how people viewed art. The piece that I created symbolizes this transition through its distortion of a serene picture into a new piece which has a disconcerting mood. The filtered image has a disconnected feeling to it.  It looks, “hip” and uses colors that are calming. But the effect of the various filters give off a vauge emotion and the message is unclear. The text can stand by itself, but it seems overbearing and cynical. However, the image combined with the text produces a feeling of curiousity and awakening.

Chad on Altered Images

The three filters I used for my photo were Neon Glow, Accented Edges, and Lens Flare.  With the neon glow applied first, the picture looked radically different, with everything but the lights and the lit buildings in the background devoid of color.  I went with a violet shade for the neon glow, which I thought kind of made the lights and the buildings look like some ominous evil that we were unwittingly heading towards, akin to hell or what have you.  The accented edges kind of gave it a cel-shaded, comic book sort of feel, which I thought helped separate the picture from the reality in which it was grounded.  The lens flare in the upper right corner I wanted to serve as a sort of disembodied voice that I attributed the text to in this instance.

What I was going for generally was to have that voice seem like it was guiding us down the path to those dark flames in the background, as if to test us or something.  The quote is from Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.  I felt that it carried a lot of gravity when I first read it, so it’s always stuck with me since I first read it.

On the whole, this assignment wasn’t too difficult once I had an idea of where I wanted to go with it and what the various filters had to offer on the surface.  I didn’t do a much tweaking when it came to the settings, so there was probably a lot more I could’ve done with it, but  I was pretty happy with the end result.

Without the image, the text itself has a pretty sobering effect, jerking the reader back into the harshness of reality and the way the world really works.  The image alone is of a darker tone as well, although the purple flames don’t so  much ground it in reality, but it brings to mind what I was trying to get across, which was, literally, a road to perdition.  Combined, the two are both stronger for being combined, I feel, although the entire meaning as I intended to convey it probably isn’t as easily happened upon without knowing what I was trying to do with it.

Jeffrey’s Photoshop Filter Pic

When using the image of the two women, I wanted to create a look of lots of little tiles that needed to be put together for one united voice.  I was hoping to get across that woman from all backgrounds, religions, ages, and color need to come together.  The first filter I used for this image was Mosaic Tile Filter.  This filter helped to create the look of many different broken up pieces of the picture and was the main filter used to create the look.  The next filter I used in the project was the grain tool filter.  By making the grain darker, I was able to make the “cracks” of the picture really stand out, which help to “pop out” each piece of tile. Lastly I used the lighting effects filter to give the look of light coming from the right hand corner.  This made the image look like there was some sun coming into the room and made the women in the picture stand out.  Having never used Photoshop filters, I found this to be an easy way to change the picture.  By just clicking a few buttons your can complete change the look of your image.  The only difficult part of the filters was learning what each of the filters did.  I went through and learned each filter before I started to use them.

 

The text I picked to go along with the image was part of a speech given by Angela E.V. King, Assistant Secretary-General, in front of the United Nations.  Her speech fits perfectly with the image because it talks about violence and discrimination against women and ways to correct them.  She says that in order to help change the attitudes, women need to start support each other throughout the world.

 

Both the image and the text are so powerful that they could easily stand alone.  Neither one needs the other to help get a meaningful message across.  When just reading the text, the reader can get a very detailed picture in their mind of what King is talking about.  Her words have been chosen very carefully and would bet that her entire speech was very powerful.  The text makes me feel like the world has a big problem on their hands when it comes to the attitudes towards women.  I think the image also has a lot to say.  Even before I added the filters, the picture made the view really think about what was taking place.  The view had lots of questions and could come up with some very creative answers from looking at the pictures for a few minutes.  After I added the filters, the image became even more influential, bring in a big picture of the role of women.