Category: Practical Skills 2D

This is an anti-advertisement for Amazon’s Black Friday deals. This was created using Adobe Photoshop, using techniques to remove the background of images found on Google. The message portrayed in this piece is to represent the founders of big companies enjoying the chaos created by making products cheaper for one day of the year.

Bibliography

Amazon Logo. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://www.pentalic.com/amazon-logo-white-small/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Black Friday Sale. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://www.expd8.co.uk/blog/forget-black-friday-now-black-week/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Black Friday Window Sticker. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://www.tenstickers.co.uk/stickers/black-friday-window-sticker-9478 [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Black Friday. (n.d.a). [Online Image] Available at: https://medium.com/the-happy-startup-school/are-you-sick-of-black-friday-too-check-out-these-genius-campaigns-db178868e916 [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Black Friday. (n.d.b). [Online Image] Available at: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-introduces-special-black-friday-ad-format/278979/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Closeup of a Puppet Master Hand String. (n.d.). [Online Video] Available at: https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1016894965-closeup-puppet-master-hand-string [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Jeffrey Bozos. (n.d.). [Online Video] Available at: https://www.newsweek.com/jeff-bezos-villain-laugh-edit-video-tiktok-1614328 [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

Meaning of Black Friday. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://blog.mirraw.com/2021/11/12/worlds-biggest-holiday-shopping-day-black-friday-sale/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2021].

This is a before and after photo editing experiment, using the healing tools in Adobe Photoshop. The experiment was to make the original photo more beautiful so images of hair and eyelashes were incorporated and some textured skin has been smoothed over. Pink colours have been overlaid onto the lips for a lipstick effect and small brush strokes have been added to the eyebrows to make them seem thicker. This piece was inspired by Esther Honig’s experiment (Honig, n.d.).

Bibliography

Eyelash PNG. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://pngimg.com/image/76350 [Accessed 9 Jan. 2022].

False Eyelashes. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://picsart.com/i/288844170018211 [Accessed 9 Jan. 2022].

Hair PNG. (n.d.). [Online Image] Available at: https://www.picpng.com/hair-png-32931 [Accessed 9 Jan. 2022].

Honig, E. (n.d.). Esther Honig Experiment. [Online Image] Available at: http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2015/going-viral-losing-control-and-your-job [Accessed 9 Jan. 2022].