"Perfect" Body Image

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I feel really great with the overall transformation because of how much I could warp my face onto the celebrities and edit all of the things I could. This changes my perspective of pictures in magazine ads by the fact that no one looks perfect, and no one is perfect. The way we see beauty is a totally different way than it really is. What this tells you about today’s view of the perfect body image is that it is very inaccurate and mistaken.  I think I did really well on matching my eyes, nose, lips, and cheeks to the celebrity’s, because they were pretty accurate to her face structure. Another thing I think I did well was blending my face color in with her because the photo looks more real with the way our faces blended in together, giving it the effect that it is naturally there. Some things I think I could spend more time on would be, making my eyes more focused, because they look more blurry than the rest of the photo, like you can tell that two different pictures were taken for the face and the celebrity’s body. Another thing could be to angle my nose down because it would make the angle of the photo that was taken look more accurate as if my face is truly on the celebrity’s.

A Day in The Life of a Mercy Student

I used five different Photoshop tools with these pictures by doing basic adjustments to some. These basic adjustments were correcting the brightness and contrast of the photos, balancing out the colors, and fixing the exposures. I did all of these things to basically brighten or darken up the photo to create a more vibrant and noticeable picture. I also used those adjustments above, yet went beyond them with two different edits, using the Black & White tool, and the Tint tool. For one of my photos, by giving it the Black & White tool it made it stand out from the others, creating a smooth picture, helping it focus on the one object in the photo. With the Tint tool, it made it stand out from the rest of the photos also, with the different tint of color to it. While making this collage, I learned how to put photos together into a collage and use different editing tools for the photos. This project helped a ton on getting to know Photoshop and my own photos better.