Animoto Video

Cutout with Photoshop

Photoshop is a program that allows you to edit your pictures in ways other programs can't. It is easy to use once you get the hang of it. The program lets users manipulate, crop, resize, and correct colors on photos. I learned that you need to be very careful when using the crop tool and the "magic wand" tool because you can ruin the picture if you don't use these tools carefully. It's a lot of fun to use if you use it correctly; and many professionals use it!

Photojournalism Ethics

I think it is not right when someone fools you, so as a photojournalist I don't think altering your photos is the right thing to do. When you simply change the color of someone shirt in a picture, you are fooling the reader from what the picture actually is and is portraying. I think editing pictures to make them look better is perfectly fine, but when you remove items or change the people in the photo, you are not showing the public the same picture you took, so you are causing the viewer to question if the picture really happened or if it is a fake. This has been a growing concern amongst photojournalists because readers are beginning to question almost every photo taken; It is true? Did it really happen? Is this what it was supposed to look like? I don't think we, as readers, should have to question the honesty of a photo each time we see one. In this picture, for example, we need to ask if this is really what it looks like? Probably not. This photojournalist obviously manipulated the picture to make it look like that.