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My business is called SB Photography. Which stands for my name Sarah Brooks and the business will be all about taking professional pictures for people. My business will be centrally located in Blanchard, Oklahoma and I will run it from my home there. Though I will be traveling quite a bit to different locations to get the best pictures for different occasions or if a client has a specific location they would like to take the images at. But at my central location I will use it to edit the images…

It’s not real. It’s artificial. Photoshop has an ever lasting effect, they’re what stays in a person’s mind, real or not. A fake image that influences what we call “beauty”. A society that’s exposed to the many advertisements that uses manipulative body images to sell yet they’re unreal. Many people don’t even notice what’s real and what’s artificial in these photos. Photoshop shouldn’t be argued if it is good or bad since it results in people suffering from low self-esteem, poor body images…

Nowadays advertising actually is not a foreign matter to everybody in this modern life. We can see advertising everywhere around us from newspaper, radio, television to YouTube, or maybe on social media like Facebook, and Instagram. Advertising is an audio or visual form of showcasing correspondence that utilizes a transparently supported, and promote or sell a product, service or idea. For example, about the beauty standards, many magazines everyday produce images of impossible beauty; for this…

Rap is becoming an increasingly popular genre of music specially with today’s youth as it is somehow considered a part of the youth culture. Today, it is featured increasingly among popular advertisements, radio and even on television shows. Rap is genre wherein you can express challenges and experiences in life in a form of a story. Although that is sometimes the case, rude and inappropriate themes are also expressed in rap. The question that I will be answering in this essay is How has the…

What is hip hop? Hip Hop is a style of popular music of United States African American and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip hop music in 2018 is still very popular in the United States by both men and women and diverse cultures. In the article “Fly-Girls, Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan she quotes rap lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G.’s platinum album “Ready to Die”, scenarios and statistics relating to black on black crime and her mother’s words of wisdom to…

Hip hop music has helped to culturally mold an entire generation. Although it started in the late 1970s with roots in rock & roll, reggae, jazz, blues, and funk, people still feel its effects to this day. Nearing its 4th decade, its rhythmic influence has spanned nearly the entire globe. However, the spell that it has placed on the masses over the years has not always had the best of outcomes. It is true that many artists have used the platform of the genre to profess violence, among other…

Amy, Amy, Amy. Adobe Photoshop, Amy Winehouse portrait. To make this Pop art inspired artwork, I simply used a picture of Amy Winehouse and manipulated it on Adobe Photoshop to make it look similar to the Marilyn Monroe pop art by Andy Warhol. The source of my inspiration was the Pop Art movement, more specifically Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup repetitive pop art. The reason why this movement inspired me to do my artwork is because I like it. It is very pronounced and…

Has Photoshop Gone Too Far In today’s society is becoming laborious to be confident with your body image. It seems as if everywhere you turn, there is another seemingly flawless model or celebrity posted on a billboard, magazine ad, or even social media. A model might look like they have perfect skin, hair, and body structure, but when the original photo is revealed, there true self, along with all her flaws, are also revealed. Kate Winslet once said in an interview that GQ magazine altered…

Photoshop. A programme capable of altering the images in our world, and our perceptions of them. Though inanimate, it has the ability to shape our values; causes us to conform to a society that desires to be genetically flawless. You may not realise it, or maybe you do, but the probability of Photoshop affecting the way you look at yourself is more than likely. You’re reading a magazine, and suddenly, you flip to a page of a model who is seemingly perfect. You sit there, and you stare at that…

I became vaguely familiar with DSLR cameras, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator making books, calendars, flyers, and logos for local schools. I was doing everything I wanted to do learning things I was interested in. When I applied to colleges I Applied to SUNY schools that had Graphic Design…