Photoshop

Alan Sugar photoshop

 

 
Lasso = L key
Quickmask = Q key
Modify the edge of selection  = Select/Modify/Expand
Turn the selection into a layer= cmd/ctrl J
Move the Layer to another Photo= Move tool =V key drag to another photo
Scale the layer= cmd/ctrl T
Copy the Layer= cmd/ctrl J

Portratiture

Portraiture. 

Portraits have been round for hundreds of years, although not by camera technology but by paintings and drawings. Portraits are used to identify people, promote famous people such as Kings, Queens, Actors, Singers Ect. But Portraits have been 'around' for so long, The first piece of portraiture that was found was in 1365 BC, an Eygyption Pharoh Akhenaten carved a picture of him and his wife into stone. But even further than that some portraits have been found in cave drawings this is the oldest art style to be found, this shows how fascinated people have always been with creativity and it shows people have always thought about how to represent a 'Model'. Painters/Photographers/Camera's were only available to the Rich and more upper class, the portraits were usually for family photographs, celebrity photographs and royalty but now cameras upto the 1930s where photographers become more widely available and lower prices therefore more and more people are available to have portraits of family done. 

Cameras eventually became more affordable so a wide range of people do now own a camera of some sort, if it's on a Mobile Device, Computer or a hand held camera, a lot of people have access to one. Now Portraits are used for mainly to identify people (I.e.  Mugshots, social networking, school photographs and passports) also to advertise (Fashion, Celebrities for magazines/online).  Portraiture can be creative and each photographer uses a different mind, ideas and interpretation from taking the photographs. 

Diane Arbus. 

Diane Arbus was a photographer that used the camera to strip away what the person being photographed didn't want to see/know about them selves. She was born on March 14th, 1923, as an artistic youth she took interest in photography and learnt it with her husband, Allan Arbus - who was an actor.  She started doing fashion photography and then in the 1950s went on to demonstrate her unusual talent within photography, she travelled around New York City and took photographs of people in seedy hotels, public parks, a morgue and other locations. She was drawn to outsiders of society and a lot of these images were published in July 1960's issue of Esquire magazine. 

Arbus' photograph of Colin Wood shows a young boy holding a grenade, this is interpreted as a precursor to the violence within that time that was kicked off by the Kennedy Assassination. She took photographs of the unseen side of society at the time. Diane Arbus, took her own life in 1971, the reason why is unknown but she showed everything that was wrong with society.