Blog Post #2

  1. The header image that I’ve designed for my website was designed intentionally to make readers aware of the content of the site immediately; with the background of a newspaper and a Rutgers logo, any individual who visits my site could guess that this is a Rutgers news website.
  2. I found the sources that I used through the creative commons app, specifically through the commons’ “wikimedia” section. I know that the images I picked are okay to use because the newspaper photo that I chose is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share, which makes it okay to share and edit it as I see fit. I know that the picture of the Rutgers logo I chose to insert into the header is okay to use as well because being that it is only made of geometric shapes and text, it does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright, and is therefore considered public domain.
  3. In order to produce the image created for the website’s header, both photos had to be added to the pixlr as separate layers to create a new image. The separate layers were important to the creation of the image because it separated the editing process for the two; I could edit, crop, cut, or expand one image without affecting the other. In Manovich’s article, he articulated the importance of the newfound ability to edit each image separately because of the layer feature. Now that one had the ability to do so, they could create entirely new images out of using the same ones.
  4. Davison’s article, which focuses on the importance of the graphics program MS Paint, draws similarities to the image created in pixlr for my website. However, the processes differ in realities of such, being that paint relies on images made from scratch, and the pixlr image came from two already existing photos. Although they are both meant to be customized, the properties in which the images are produced differ.

 

Works cited:

Manovich, Lev (2011) “Inside Photoshop” http://computationalculture.net/inside-photoshop/

Davison, Patrick (2015)  “Because of the Pixels: On the History, Form, and Influence of MS Paint.” file:///C:/Users/caraa/Downloads/w5%20davison%20MS%20paint%202015.pdf

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