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College considers a whole new refurbishment, from this picture, who blames them?

After looking at the original, the old and degraded building did not seem to fit with the beautiful blue sky, so i selected the whole blue sky with the magic wand tool and changed the saturation to remove the colour and make it grey and fit with the buildings.

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Parking spaces full and bicycle parks empty, so much for cycling to save the planet

I have cropped this picture to remove all pedestrians so that my story would seem more fitting.

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Teenagers disregard for drivers, workers and each other, as they ignore the signs and walk across a busy road under maintenance.

I have edited this image to blur out the pedestrians so that the eyes of the audience are drawn to the sign. This has also helped obscure peoples faces that might not have wanted to have their faces displayed. I did this by selecting the whole picture around the sign and blurred that selected area.

Photo Manipulation

People have been manipulating photos for a very long time, it was even happening in the 1860s. Manipulating photos can have quite serious consequences. It can completely change the meaning of any image. It doesnt matter whether you cut the picture in half or replace someones head, it can seriously change the way in which we look at pictures. For example in the 1930 photograph of Stalin, he has had his commissar removed from his photo after falling out with him.



The point to this is that anyone can manipulate a photo to completely change its meaning and context. By croping the image you could remove the vitally important object within the decisive moment, which would change the context and the perspective. And after replacing faces you can completely change who the image is about and who it is portraying.

Where the picture is shown can also change the meaning to the photo. It all depends on the contrasts of its surroundings and what pictures it are next to, they could have a picture of all loads of generals doing their duty and then they could put the photo of the general from thailand executing a prisoner without trial, and depending of the pictures shown around it, it could be shown as good. This is called juxtaposition.