My "Perfect" Body

I feel pretty good with the overall transformation of my picture. Some areas of the picture could have been improved more, but overall it is fine. Even though this does not look exactly like Reese Witherspoon you can tell that my face replaces hers.

Today many people look in magazines or at famous people to see what their bodies look like because to us that is what “perfect” body is. We try to make ourselves look like them and never stop to think about all the work that is being done on a computer to make their bodies look “perfect” in the society’s eyes.

This changes my perspective of pictures in magazine ads because they change the appearance of people to make them look flawless and perfect. Doing this project, I can now pick out what has been added to some pictures to make them “perfect”. Also, I know to not compare myself to the front of a magazine and wish to look like them because most of the time everything on that person has been photo shopped to be perfect.

Two things I think I did really well on were doing the makeup and changing my eye color. These two things were both easy and fun to do. I think I did well on these because all I had to do was pick what color eye shadow and eyeliner I wanted to use and use the paint brush to apply it to my eyes. Changing the color of my eyes was just like applying the makeup. I picked the color blue and put it on my eyes and lowered the Opacity so they would look more real.

Two things that I could improve on are matching the skin tones and blending our faces together. These two things I had the most trouble with. It was difficult to find the right color to apply to my face to match hers. Whenever I got a color that closely matched our skin tones I had to blend our faces together. This was also hard because some areas of my face would match hers while other areas wouldn’t.

Photoshopping the in the Life of a Mercy Student

In class we have been editing pictures on Photoshop. Photoshop is a program that creates and edits photos. I liked doing those things. It made me feel like I was making a picture I took mine. I also liked to make pictures using the color tool. It was a fun tool to use. 

To make my collage I used the crop tool, blemish remover, brightness, lasso tool, and color balance. I used the crop tool because some pictures would not fit how I wanted them in the picture. I used the blemish remover because some people and spots on their face. I used the brightness tool to make the picture look brighter. I used the lasso tool to make the pictures round instead of rectangular shaped. Lastly I used the color balance to balance out the colors in each picture to make them look more appealing to the eye.