Blog 5: Image Editor Software

                

Pictures of famous people and models seem to be everywhere from billboards to the internet. Looking in most magazines you will see pictures of gorgeous people. These images seem extremely real but they are usually edited to appeal to society. With the technology today, we are able to enhance and edit these pictures to make people look more ‘beautiful.’ In the movies there is an extreme amount of editing to make the video more real and appealing to the eye. There are numerous software programs that can do basic or more complex editing. For example, in Photoshop you can pretty much do anything you want to an image. You can create images from scratch or change aspects of an existing file. You can mash up multiple pictures together to create a new image too. Most images you see on billboards and magazines are not the original picture. Programs like Photoshop can do things like make a wrinkly old man into a young man. You can drastically change the appearance of the image. Other programs like Adobe Illustrator makes it very easy to create and edit images too. Creating posters and flyers can be done in these types of software which would be useful to artists that want to promote events. These skills are becoming more necessary in the world today as technology continues to rapidly improve. The down side to this aspect of image editing software is that it can be done so easily that anyone can do it. It can be somewhat deceptive in that the original image looks nothing like the edited one.