This week we learned about the Adobe Photoshop program while on the subject of Visual Literacy. Visual literacy is incredibly important because we are living in a very visual culture. It is "the ability to understand communications composed of visual images as well as being able to use visual imagery to communicate to others."(museumca.org) We learned that photography greatly influences how we think about history, the pictures really give a visual stimulus for what was going on at that time. This also gives light to the fact that photography is malleable, and can make any kind of image to appear within its context. In advertising for example, models in magazines are portrayed as flawless beings, which brings about a fallacy because programs like photoshop can make anyone beautiful.
Photoshop influences what I plan to do with my life in a lot of ways. I have to make sure that in an elementary school setting, the picture does not lie to the students. Children are incredibly susceptible to lies in the media, and it truly begins when they are young. On the bright side though, I can create more interesting learning materials to make the children more interested in the information they are receiving. Programs like photoshop can provide an interactive world of learning for students all over.
I chose this interactive article because it really portrays how fake the media can really be. The stars that woman idolize and men fantasize about are never really what they say they are. A simple computer program can make it look like your favorite movie star lost 10 pounds, and maybe so should you. This shows how unfair the media can be, and how we shouldn't ever pay attention to those people in the magazines. Children see these magazines in grocery stores, and start at a young age believing in the hype of beauty. It just isn't fair..
http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/unattainable-beauty.html
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