The pictures I chose (both from separate people's blogs) were open hands and a flaming heart. At first, I was searching Google for images of butterflies, but some how I stumbled upon this picture of the heart, and I thought it looked pretty cool! It actually reminded me of some lyrics to a song by Keith Urban: "She laid her heart and soul right in your hands..." Sorry if you're not a country music fan, but I love that song! The image of the hands was originally in color, so I had to change the picture to black and white. I also changed the opacity a little bit. Then, I took the picture of the flaming Sacred Heart and used the oval elliptical marquee tool to feather the edges. Then I placed the heart on top of the hands, changed the opacity, and used the smudge tool to kind of blend the edges of the flames.
There wasn't really any particular reason to manipulate the photos, I just thought it would look awesome. I wouldn't consider the manipulation of the images to be harmful, unless a person actually believed this was a picture of someone literally holding a heart bursting in flames... It was just for fun!
Now, on to the article "Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research." It is absolutely not okay for scientists to manipulate the images they use to support their research data. Science is all about backing up or disproving previous scientific findings, so changing something that a scientist uses as evidence will totally disrupt the scientific process and "delay progress in...scientific inquiry."
Cool idea! it looks so neat!
ReplyDeletethis is pretty sweet. That heart picture is a good find and you it look like it was a sorcerer or something making it.
ReplyDeleteI really like the bright colors against the black&white, it looks really good!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Even though I not a country music fan, this picture is still very striking.
ReplyDeletethis is a beautiful creation. i love what you've done with the image. amazing!!
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