Utilising Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 software, Firstly, I started with changing the background and clothes of the Minister giving the speech that I downloaded from The New York Times (2016). On the right side, we can see a Hue/Saturation option by clicking on the layers, which we used to change the colour of the curtain into green and colour of coat into grey and also managed some brightness and lightning in the background. After that, using a picture of Australian Flag from my gallery, I fixed the image of the map on the speech stand behind the mic and decreased the opacity to make it look lighter and pale.
Further, I attached the image of a security guard with a walkie- talkie in his hand, which I got from IMGBIN (2019) just to give it a new and transformed look. At last, fixed an image of speaker downloaded from Clipart (http://clipartportal.com/speaker-clipart-png-2/) on the right side with a written expression “We are proud of our nation” and added a border for a defining and lucid appearance of the image.
The image that is being manipulated is the picture of Australia’s immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who gave a speech against “False Hope” to asylum seekers (New York Times 2016). Moreover, this transformation offers the ultimate User Experience with the unique and powerful aura of attraction to the audience. The fact that we do transformations in our everyday life whether it is applying filters on our pictures to make it look more beautiful or recording videos with a different sound and colour effects are the evident examples of digital literacy. Digital Literacy is the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize digital resources (Martin, 2005, p. 135) Overall, this is my second blog post for Assessment 4 and I hope i did it better than my first blog post. In this blog post, i think i was able to make some appeared changes and improved a little than before. However, in my first blog post i lacked in editing and representing my post effectively but this time and at other times in future, whenever i will be uploading my new blog posts i will learn from my previous mistakes.
References
Innis, M. 2016, Australia Chides Rights Advocates for Giving ‘False Hope’ to asylum seekers, Australia, Viewed 29 August 2019, <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/australia/nauru-detention-centre-refugee-self-immolations.html>
Intsec. 2019, Walkie-talkie Two-way Radio Security Guard Police Officer PNG, Viewed 29 August 2019, <https://imgbin.com/png/bsX5EQNq/walkie-talkie-two-way-radio-security-guard-police-officer-png>
Martin. 2005, Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?, pp.135
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