Photoshop Project

For this project we were asked to use a stock photo and a minimum of five other images to create our own unique image in photoshop. The stock photo we were to use is shown below.

The picture did not really match what I had been planning on creating for the project, so I decided to cut out the hands and part of the frames. The other pictures I chose were from Shutterstock and Google. 

We were not allowed to use the eraser tool for this exercise which made me nervous at first because it is so easy to use. However, it destroys the images that are used. In order to keep the original image pristine we used the masking tool. Thankfully, this tool is also very simple to use. With parts and pieces of these images I was able to create this original image. 

I created this image to show the unrealistic and drastic ideas of beauty and how ordinary woman feel pressured to conform to these ideas. I wanted to show the drastic methods of conforming with regards to brainwashing. I feel that the world is brainwashing women to feel that everyone needs to be a size 2 have full lips and perfect cheek bones. However, it is truly our differences that are beautiful.