Mr. Potato Head Selection Exercise in Photoshop

The Digitised Image is subject that is compulsory for Multimedia Journalists. The introductory lesson for The Digitised Image looked at the works of several photographers who have a grasp for producing Surrealistic photos.

A photographer from back in the 1930s known as Henri Cartier Bresson is famouss for a photograph that's entitled, “Desicive Instant” (“L’instant desicif”). The photo shows how photography at it's best is when no manipulation needs to be done. Where everything is achieved at the point of capture.

"To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second the significance of an event, as well as the precise organization the forms that give that event its proper expression." -Henri Cartier-Bresson The Decisive Moment (1952)

One thing to remember is Time is NOT linear.

Before Photoshop was invented photo manipulation still occurred but in the darkroom instead. Examples of some pre-digital works is the manipulation of photographs and negatives by Angus McBean, Jerry Uelsmann.

The desire of manipulating photographs in the way that was practiced by famous photographers like McBean and Uelsmann preceded the development of digital photography.

Upon creation of digital editing applications digital photo manipulators started to come out from the woodwork. Paul M Smith is one such digital photo manipulator.

 

The photo above is a photo created for the NM1202 subject at JCU. It was created in the first week of practicals for The Digitalised Image. It is created using a set of fruit and vegetable images, e.g. the potato, orange and carrot pieces.

The creation of the Potato man is inspired by Toy Story's Mr. Potato Head. The exercise showed the various tools that are available in Photoshop that allow for selecting of items using various selection tools such as the magic wand and marquee selection tool.