Evidence for Digital Images - Manipulation and Output

Layering
Layering is used to create composite images and enable you to put multiple images together. You can use it to put images that were not originally together, and create a new image out of them. You can put bengal tigers in the snow if you are skilled.

Feathering
Feathering is when you soften the edges of an image, This is used to create good photo-manipulations as when you layer one image on top of another, you need to blend out the edges so that you can't see instantly that they were not originally supposed to how you are seeing them.

Healing
The healing tool is similar to the cloning tool, in which you sample from other areas of the image, however, it is more 'aware' of what is around it when you paint with it, allowing it to blend a lot easier straight off the bat. There is also the spot healing tool, which is even easier to use as it is very close to automatic, and this is highly used for blemishes on people, over the other tools.

Cloning
Cloning is when you use your current brush, to extract data from a certain part of a photo, and place it onto a different part. The part that needs the other pixels put on top of it, are parts of the photos that require repair, for example, if they have something that needs covering up that is in the image, you can take another part of the image, and get rid of that object/glitch.

An example of when I have used these methods is below.

However the ability to create these false images has an impact on photography being a 'truthful' medium, through everyone now asking themselves whether or not the image you are looking at has been photoshopped. Was that person really with that person or in that place? Is her stomach really that flat? Is her face really that flawless? In adverising, with almost every advertisement being photoshopped now, the whole campaign has been changed to having no photoshop will get you more sales, including 'real' people makes people want to use your product more. In general now, audiences are getting more and more judgemental by anyone who is using photoshop heavily in any images they create. Something with less of an impact on the general population that is created in images is changing the weather with colour and brightness for example, or green-screening people into other locations.