Hey...I'm a freshman from Honolulu, Hawaii. I heard about this class through my friends Mario Madrigal and Stefan Vraspir. Currently in terms of a major, I am undecided. For my project I am going to pursue Photoshop and the way it affects photographs, journalism, advertisments and images in magazines and newspapers. I am thinking about the way digitally editing media has changed our perceptions of what is real and what is edited in. How do we know if the picture we are looking at is the real representation of the object, or if it is the artist's personal vision of what that object should look like. Does it matter?

Project Proposal

My Photoshop

To narrow this project down, I am going to be focusing on my reasons, uses, gains, intentions of using the Photoshop on my computer. From adding my mom to family pictures that she misses to shrinking the size of my friend's rear end, I will explore why I am so addicted to Photoshop. Using this as a lens, I will unpack the larger concepts in Photoshop. To provided examples for my points, I am going to use pictures I have previously altered as well as create new images for the project.

Photoshop -- project main page

The Big, Digital Picture -- project overview and conclusions

Photoshop Project Map -- easy organization of project pages

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Posted at Feb 13/2006 12:58AM:
Michael Shanks: a big and fascinating topic - start with one particular example of a photoshopped image and take it from there

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Posted at Feb 13/2006 12:11PM:
Sebastian De Vivo: Take a look at a recent controversy regarding photoshopped images:

http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/weblog/?p=121