Multimedia Week #3 Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy in Media

Speaking through Media

~Let's create while we communicate~ 

The photo on the right side of my blog is a photo I used in Photoshop. This was my first time using Photoshop and I'd say, I did a pretty well..Learning how to communicate with a keyboard, rather than one's voice has slowly become the new generation. We speak through phone, text, email, social media, chat rooms, internet, etc...Now, let me teach you what I learned about creating one's own media! 

<How do we communicate through visual literacy>

Let's Build Visual Communication Skills 

Individuals can communicate by reading, viewing, analyzing: images, gestures, words, etc., through media..It's actually quite simple, take this picture below, one is titled: "Read some books!", I made this through an online media site "Picmonkey". You can take a photo, personal or internet (labeled for noncommercial reuse or modification) and edit it! Yes, e-d-i-t it! You can "change" the photo around, crop, color-change, alter, add text, decor, etc. There are various tools to use to create a whole new photo! 

(Hints: First, you upload the photo to a photo editing site, in this case, "picmonkey"..once the photo of your choice is uploaded, you can alter how the photo looks in any way that you want. You have a set amount of tools to change the color, as I did below, alter the brightness, as well as add in some text with the font/color of your choice..now there are far more ideas of how to alter photos, more complex than I have provided below..)

PicMonkey: http://www.picmonkey.com/

• The link above is a website that allows individual's to alter/edit their photos. 

• Why would you want to edit your photos? 

• Maybe, to make it a little more interesting, appealing, or even to crop a portion of the photo that disrupts the meaning behind it, or to create a "meme", or to even change the entire photo to something different.. 
• When an artist alters the format of the photo, it allows for a better visual understanding of the photo. It allows for individuals to learn the meaning behind the photo by studying every aspect of it. 
• The more the photo has to offer, the more there is to learn from! 
• "Go play around with your photos, PicMonkey does it" 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYP8zX0B2s