David Walbert Visual Literacy

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Today, more and more images, photos, advertisements and other media are around us, and it’s time to realize that visual literacy is becoming important in our life. As a student, may be we learned colors, structures, and shapes about an image, but we didn’t consider visual literacy as a skill for media. In the article , Melissa Thibault and David Walbert say due to various images such as photographs, paintings has been using in a variety of media, the skill of understanding and producing graphically which is called “Visual Literacy” has become a primary skill. This idea is new and interesting for me and it will be a good skill for my future. As a web design student, how I can understand an image and describe my design was easy in my mind,

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