Note: if you cannot see the videos below, you can access them at SEGA Tech. Just scroll down the page.
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the old saying goes. But is seeing really believing? With the advent of wonderful image-editing tools such as Photoshop (and its open-source counterpart, GIMPshop), anyone can reconstruct visual reality. Reasons for altering images can range from innocent (removing that annoying red eye from a family photograph) to blatantly creating false impressions about celebrities and political situations. Media consumers need to be cognizant of the techniques that are sometimes employed to manipulate public opinion. Not surprisingly, tampering with media is a practice that goes back well over a hundred years. Even respected news outlets (such as Reuters with its disastrous Adnan Hajj photographs as well as other lapses in judgment) have had to deal with questionable photographic offerings. The message here is clear: be critical of what you think you see.

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Videos

If you are unable to see these due to filtering in your school system, visit SEGA Tech and search for Media Literacy. Look for the post for June 7th, 2007

The Evolution of Beauty


Extreme Photoshop Makeover


Photoshop Makeover