I chose an action photo of Cristiano Ronaldo and decided to blend it with one of Pele. At first, it was a photo of Cristiano playing another team with two other players in the background so, using the clone stamp tool, I had to cover them up using the existing background. After that, I cut out Pele using the magnetic lasso tool and inserted him into the other picture. I then proceeded to strip the picture of a lot of its color, and hue and saturation. I also adjusted the lighting. By doing all of this, I was trying to give the picture a old look similar to those of the Nike and Gatorade advertisements.
I also added the title (which I added some effects to), "Battle of the Ages" because like any soccer fan knows, Pele is reguarded as the best soccer player of all time, and Christiano Ronaldo is arguably the best of his generation. Being a huge fan of Christiano Ronaldo, I would love to see this matchup, even though of course it would never happen. This photo manipulation is not harmful because as most people know, or can even see by the pictures, Pele is from the 1950-70s while Ronaldo is a current player.
One of the main points of the article I chose was that "it is not the technology that is at the heart of the photo manipulation controversy rather it is the ethics behind manipulation." I thought this was well said and makes a lot of sense because just because technology provides to resources to do so, it doesn't mean that it is morally right to manipulate an image.
Salvo, Suzanne. "True lies." Communication World 25.5 (2008): 26-30. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.
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