Pics That Lie

What picture you chose and why? I chose to manipulate a photo of a baby into a demon-esque thing.                 

Where did the picture originate?  I used multiple pictures, all of which originated from stockphoto websites.              

How was it manipulated?   I put the pictures together to put an X on the kid's forehead, colored him green and made the eyes glow. I also added horns and fangs.                    

Why was it manipulated?   To convince the world that a demon baby had been born, similar to the Fairy manipulation of 1917, done by Cottingley.                       

Was the manipulation harmful?  Mine wasn't, but in 1917, when Cottingley did his primitive version, it caused a lot of panic.                   

Why or why not? Due to the widespread awareness if photoshop, no one would believe that the photo was real.

How did it relate to the article you researched?  The Cottingley fairies were a hoax done in 1917 with cardboard cutouts of "fairies". I wanted to show how easy this sort of hoax has become because of photoshop, and how now people won't believe "photo proof" because of the availibility and ease of manipulating photos.

Larry Hechler

Learning about the computer hardware was really cool! Next time I buy a computer, i will actually have something intelligent to ask!The inside of a computer looks so complicated, but once you have labels for things, its not so bad!

Chris Nolan

Mr.Nolan's presentation contained a wealth of useful information, but my favorite thing was ehn he told the class about the use of advanced search on Google. I usually ignore advanced search because I think it over-filters my search results, but Mr. Nolan showed me that in certain situations it's useful in helping find obscure websites. I love Google as a search engine, but he also introduced the class to some of the other awesome search tools out there. I also really liked when he explained the uses of symbols when searching. I will definitely be using this information in the future!