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TOPIC OUTLINE: Personal photographs and videos can be
manipulated with a myriad of special effects,
❖ Technology Based Art
both visual as well as sound and music.
❖ Computer/Digital Art
❖ Computer-Generated Images IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAMS
❖ Image Manipulation Programs ★ PIXLR - a powerful, free, online image
❖ Digital Photography editor.
❖ Basic Tips for Taking Good
★ PIC COLLAGE - allows to make
Photographs
collages incorporating photos,
❖ Photo Projections
stickers, text, and frames.
❖ Photojournalism Styles and
Techniques ★ PHOTO GRID - a downloadable
application for android phones that
allows you to make colleagues out of
TECHNOLOGY BASED ART
images from your gallery.
➔ Technology-Based Art is essentially
computer-generated or manipulated. ★ DOODLE BOOTH - an ipad application
➔ Today’s computer artists employ the for android phones that allows you to
ever-expanding powers of image make collages out of images from
manipulation programs and your photo gallery.
applications to create their works which ★ PHOTO BOOTH - an application for
can appear in an entire range of media. taking photos and videos and iPad or
➔ Computer/Digital Art iPad mini (a version for the iPhone,
➔ Computer-Generated Images called SimpleBooth, is also available.
➔ Digital Photography
➔ Video Games/Digital Painting/Imaging ★ MAGIC MIRROR BOOTH - an iPhone
Videos application that allows you to take
amusing, distorted images,
simulating camera effects.
COMPUTER/DIGITAL ART
➔ Makes use of electronic and ★ PIC MONKEY - a free online photo
mechanical devices, rather than the editing tool that provides filters, frames,
artist’s own hand. text and effects to manipulate your
➔ It first came on the scene in the early images.
1960s. ★ FLIPAGRAM - a downloadable
application that allows you to bring
COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES your photos to life in short videos set
➔ Scaled down versions of such to music of your choice.
programs specifically developed for use
on smaller, handheld units like your ★ PICSART - a free photo editor and
personal tablet or android phone. drawing application, as well as a
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social network for you to share your art 7. Adjust Sharpness
with others. 8. Change Colors
9. Grayscale
★ SNAPSEED - a photo application that
10. Sepia
enables you to enhance, transform,
11. Apply a Texture
and share your photos; a free
12. Superimpose Text
downloadable version for android
13. Apply Frames
phones is available.
14. Crop
★ INSTAGRAM - a fast and fun way to
share images with others, snap a DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
photo, choose from among the ➔ Refers to the process of capturing and
available filters, and share via storing photographic images using
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. digital technology rather than
★ GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION traditional film photography.
PROGRAM - it is used for producing
icons, graphical design elements, and DARK ROOM
art for user interface components and The photographer (or a commercial developing
mockups. service) would then have to process the
exposed film in a special enclosed space
★ PAINT.NET - a freeware raster
known as “dark room” - and only then
graphics editor program for Microsoft
would the recorded images be seen.
Windows, developed on the .NET
framework.
POINT AND SHOOT CAMERA
★ INKSCAPE - a professional quality ★ It automatically makes all the
vector graphics software which runs on adjustments in lighting, focus, zoom
Linux, Mac OS X and Windows in and zoom out, even removal of
desktop computers. “red eye” with the user being given
★ XARA - an image editing program some leeway for slight adjustment.
incorporating photo editing and ★ It also allows the user to immediately
vector illustration tools created by review the photos taken without
British software company Xara. waiting for a complex developing
process - and to delete any
THINGS WE CAN DO/MANIPULATE: unsatisfactory images while storing the
1. Re-size good ones for future needs.
2. Crop
3. Skew/Warp DIGITAL SINGLE LENS REFLEX
4. Rotate ★ It is widely known as a “DSLR” camera,
5. Flip this provides the film-less and instant
6. Adjust Brightness review features of a
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“point-and-shoot” type of digital the subject would appear big,
camera, but gives the photographer dominant, and powerful.
much more artistic freedom and control ★ HIGH-ANGLE SHOT - a cinematic
to select the camera. technique where the camera looks down
★ Many professional photographers on the subject from a high angle, can
remain loyal to the traditional (i.e., make the subject seem vulnerable or
nondigital) single lens reflex camera powerless.
which still uses film. They believe that
film photography has an authenticity PHOTOJOURNALISM STYLES AND
and genuineness to its images that is TECHNIQUES
lost in the artificial and automatic ★ THE RULE OF THIRDS - powerful
manipulations of digital photography. compositional technique for making
photos more interesting and
BASIC TIPS FOR TAKING GOOD dynamic. Composed along imaginary
PHOTOGRAPHY lines which divide the image into
★ Choose a good location. thirds.
★ Check a simple background.
★ Natural light is better. ★ FRAMING - presentation of visual
★ No to “against the light” shots. elements in an image, especially the
★ Take a variety of shots. placement of the subject in relation
★ Select only the best photos. to other subjects. To focus the
viewer’s attention upon the subject.
BASIC PHOTO PROJECTIONS
★ WORM’S EYE VIEW - a view of an ★ COLOR TECHNIQUE - three-color
object from below as though the method in photography.
observer were a worm.
★ MAN’S EYE VIEW - a perspective from ★ SHADOW TECHNIQUE - includes the
the typical eye-level, showing what the use of shadows to give emphasis to
project would look like if you’re standing the subject.
in front of it.
★ BIRD’S EYE VIEW - an elevated view ★ PATTERNS - can be found everywhere.
of an object or location from a very Made up of repeated objects, shapes
steep viewing angle, creating a or colors.
perspective as if the observer were a
bird in flight looking downwards.
TYPES OF ANGLE SHOTS
★ LOW-ANGLE SHOT - a shot from a
camera angle positioned low so that
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