A2 Graphics Essay

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Laila Pollard How has the advancement of computer technology changed the processes of narrative artwork in the modern day? The advance technology improvements continually being made in the graphic design art corporation has improved and developed business advertising in the 21st century. Artists have gained access to the use of high technology computer software’s such as Adobe Photoshop design and Illustrator to improve their levels of technique, moreover produce surreal manipulations that were previously impossible to do. From the first initial release of Photoshop, February 19 1990, the evolution of Photoshop from its modest beginnings as a bundled program sold with scanners to its current version. The origins of Photoshop all started with Thomas Knoll a PHD engineering student and Glen Knoll who was a college professor with two sons and two hobbies; computers and photography. In this essay I will be analysing different artists that use computer technology to enhance their designs and create to impossible, as well as examples of artists from over generations that use other processes in their work due to technology restrictions. These artists consist of Manuel Rebollo, Lissy Elle, Fiddle Oak and Hannah Hoch. Within this essay I plan to conclude with an answer to the following question, how has the advancement of computer technology changed the processes of narrative artwork in the modern day? To generate an answer my essay will consist on examples of when computer technology has either improved or down-graded the effect of an artist’s narrative piece, what will be different if photoshop wasn’t available or even created at a different time. Photo manipulation was soon employed in numerous ways, as early photography has several limitations. Correct exposures in landscape photography often led to the sky being overexposed for example. Photographers then combined two images, each section with the correct exposure. ‘Spirit’ photography used multiple exposures to depict the medium or subject with ghostly presences within the same image. Photo manipulation could illustrate concepts, such as the proposal to allow airships to dock at the top of the Empire State building. The artistic community took up photo manipulation, for instance, with the creation of narrative images. The advertising industry used it to improve the appearance of products. The most famous example was the ‘evolution’ video, which showed how a regular woman could be given supermodel looks through Photoshop that digitally manipulated features to an unrealistic scale such as plush lips and a longer neck.


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