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Photo Manipulation: A Right-Brained User-Generated Share

Creativity, an astonishing trait of intelligence, is associated with the right hemisphere of the human brain; professionally tested, those showing an incredible lean towards creativity are often labeled right brain dominants, as opposed to the mathematical logic of the left hemisphere — the perplexity of the human brain, is that while using the whole brain; often one lobe is preferred in an influence to existence. Within a new-age globally interconnected society; the Internet marks a place of consensus for the diverse subcultures of right-brain, left-brain, and whole-brain dominance’s. Universally, logging on with various connective speeds; the revolution of social networking has yielded harmony, giving forth thousands of sites to appeal to the vast intelligences of the human mind — in this feat, diversity comes together to form bonds of global friendship; unlimited in the exchanges of popularized user-generated content. Dominated in it’s textual form; user-generated content of the newly defined social media generation constructs itself uniquely within text, image, audio, and video.

Recorded first in 1860, photo manipulation has taken on an extensive feat; digitalizing itself to become a increasingly popular form of user-generated personal creative expression — interlaced with textual, auditory, and/or video means. Objectively defined, photo manipulation, is the ingenious assiduousness of editing images for a glorified unique result; digitally creating both illusion and deception as opposed to correction and enhancement seen in simplistic photo editing form. The manipulation of images takes an immensity of technique and developing skill as well as the sensitivity of human creativity. Prevalent, is the concept of photo manipulation in twenty-first century socialization of user-generated content; associated with Adobe Photoshop, a highly glamorized tool in the trade, photo manipulation is sometimes referred to as that of photoshopping — merely meaning the editing of images in a digital manner. Interrelated, the term has been verbalized both personally and professionally to denote any form of digital image enhancement; such endeavors include retouching, combining visual elements in a single image, and/or image color enhancements — yet, by far is photo manipulation limited to just a mere three factors.

Over five million unique qualifiers can be found, on Google search alone; if a search is conducted for the team “photo manipulation” — reflective of a rather large net-base. Revolutionized from traditional objectives, twenty-first century social media have restructured existing sites while opening brand new bases for the blissful harmony of right-brained dominates; each uniquely varied site similar in ways of creating a source for liberated gatherings, communication, user-generated content sharing, and the intimacy of friendship. In depth, hundreds of Internet sites cater to the creative photo manipulation prevalence by offering a platform for photo editing; allowing users to upload an image and utilize various tools to embellish to their personal desires — similar, hundreds of freeware programs are currently in existence to be downloaded, so that a user can work on recreating images offline.

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Photo Manipulation Recommendations:

Applications:
Picasa
Photobucket
Flickr
FlauntR
PhotoShop
Apple Aperture

Software:
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Picture It!
GIMP
Paint.NET
Corel Photo Products

Social Networks:
DeviantArt

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