Review on Photo App
Hello everyone! I will be reviewing a photo editing app! The one that I choose to review this time is VSCO. I think that VSCO is a really good and helpful photo editing app. It is also very easy to use! You can do a lot things on this App to edit a photo. For example, you can choose a preset to change the color of your photo. You can change it to black and white or make the photo look more vintage. You can also change the exposure of a photo, change the contrast, you can adjust it, sharpen it, change the clarity, saturation, tone, white balance, skin tone, grain, fade.
This App helps guide and help you edit your photo and it is fast and free to use! I love this app and edit my photos on it all the time! I have edited some of the 12 photos from this project and I will attach the link to them!
I also will attach the link to my 4 Portrait photos, 4 landscape photos, and 4 abstract photos.
I have made two collages of the photos I edited!
“Teenage Girls In This Photo Series Show The Scary Effects Of Editing Apps”
This Article talks about how photo editing apps such as facetune and instagram have dramatically changed the way people look and we don’t know what is actually the truth in photos and what is not. It is telling people that they have to be a certain look.
In this article, there was a project that was put on by a man named John Rankin Wadddell, who is a British photographer. Rankin took pictures of participants, and then told them to edit their portraits until it was so called social media ready.
The motive of his project was to make it aware how much people edit their photos and change who they really are. He observed how the participants edit their photos (mainly girls) and noticed that they go right to changing their eyes, making their lips bigger. He states that the people who edit the photos of themself did this not because they look any better but because they believe that if they edit their photos they will get more likes on social media.
Rankin points out that people on instagram are beginning to look like clones of one another and this is the world today. He believes that the real you is the one that is not edited and you should love yourself for who you are, not someone who is edited and trying to be like everyone else .
Rankin believes 100% that these editing apps do hinder ones self confidence and self esteem. What he wants people to get out of this project is just for people to realize what is happening to our world today when it comes to photos and editing them. He wants people to see that this whole editing craze is a problem and wants people to be familiar and aware of what is happening.
I thought this article was very informative and really opened my eyes and I do agree with Rankin, that photo editing apps have taken control over our lives and have made our expectations to look a certain way very high. Showing the examples of these photos made understanding what he was talking about easier and helped prove his point a lot. The information was researched and done by a British photographer and the way he presented the information was very professional and he used quality information.
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