Bibliography:

Image Analysis:

• Critical Studies image analysis handout - 25/09/2006 - Janine Sykes

Picture Essay:

• http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
• http://www.apple.com/macosx
• http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html

Short Critical Review:

• Digit magazine - Issue 107 - April 2007
• http://www.thinkdigit.com/

Critical Review:

• Mixmag - May 2007
• http://www.mixmag.net/index.cfm

Surrealism glossary entry:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

Glossary entry - Surrealism

The art movement Surrealism began during the 1920's and can be said to have spread through contemporary society more than any other art movement, regardless of being continuously questioned by the art establishment.

Surrealism attempts to further our understanding of the human condition by looking at ways of combining our supposed conscious reality with our unconscious dream state.

Surrealism is a style that in which visual imagery from the subconcious mind is used with no intention of making the work rationally logic. The movement was founded by Andre Breton in 1924, a european movement which involed many members including many of the great artists of the 20th centuary, including Max Ernst, Jean Arp and probably the best know surrealist artist Salvador Dali.

Critical Review - Mixmag

Short critical review - DIGIT (April 07)

THE LAUNCH OF PHOTOSHOP CS3

QUICK WRITE - UP:

Adobe has just launched its latest creative suite with an amazing twelve programs even with the almost unnoticeable absence of Image Ready. The launch for the their latest invention in April was the biggest yet which consisted of the entire range of Adobes flagship products the most anticipated being Photoshop CS3. As i have said the absence of Image Ready goes unnoticed as it is now embedded within Photoshop itself (although I found this to be a useful tool it almost seemed unnecessary as it shared most of Photoshops features anyway). One of the most noticeable things about CS3 is its speed and how it consistently runs smoothly when rendering graphics, unlike CS2 which at times can be sluggish and quite slow you can also now enable GPU support when rendering graphics when working on Windows Vista or a Mac OS X. The palletes are now even easier to expand or collapse as your needs dictate even though the layout is the same and another big bonus as you don't have to learn any new tricks because the interface affects usability a bit more subtly than you would think. The tab key now auto hides the palletes and it is as simple as moving the mouse over them to bring them back into view - this give you plenty of space to work in and stops things getting confusing.

With this new program comes the introduction of the new Quick Selection tool which is a crazy mix of the Magic Wand and the Magnetic Lasso. This lets you paint onto selected areas with the same colour but the difference is that it automatically stops at the edges, this does tend to get a little over enthusiastic at times and a 'tolerance' parameter would certainly solve this minor problem however this is still a vast improvement to the selection tools.

THE REVIEW:

This review is very brief and not very informative especially if I were to never have used any of photoshops programs before. Some of the words used are quite confusing and are so called industry lingo which even I (as a so called Graphic Designer) struggle to understand. The review only seems to talk about the obvious advantages of this new program and does not make much comparison to Photoshop CS2. The authors intentions were probably focused on informing an audience who were familiar with this kind of thing and the audience most probably were at least involved with the design industry or had some form of interest in it as this article is in a digital magazine (DIGIT). The section titled 'The flavours of Photoshop' give an insite into what comes with the package. This is very informative and helpfull for the designer as it describes which package would be most suitable for individuals (either CS3 standard or CS3 extended as well as Photoshop Lightroom or Elements) it is clear and easy to read with none of the 'lingo' it is straight to the point and directs the reader in the suitable direction without confusion.

THE COMPUTER - The evolution of digital technology other the past hundred years

Image analysis

The title for the first image is 'The Uncle Sam Range' and the second is a poster with no title but the caption is 'Daddy, what did YOU do in the great war?'. I pressume each image will have been displayed on a bill board of some sort, the Savile Lumley poster is a famous image from the first world war however I cannot find any further information about the Uncle Sams poster, these kind of images were often produced during the first world war to inform people about there president and what he was doing for their country.
The Uncle Sams image has people sitting round a dinner table with a huge globe with a face and arms sat at one end and Uncle Sam sat at the other end and the other image has two children, one sat on their fathers lap with a book and the floor playing with toy soldiers I think each image has been created first by pencil and then possibly with paint to add colour and shade. Each image is in its origional state and has not been altered. The people in the picture are wearing smart clothes from the late 1800's or early 1900's in the Uncle Sams image everybody is looking towards the living earth as he reads from a scroll and the Savile Lumley poster has the father looking towards the viewer whilst his daughter stares into his eyes, in each image the people seem to be wealthy and the male appear to be of a high status and middle aged.
Each of these images appear to be located inside a house which gives off a sense of security and togetherness. I think both the images have been produced for the american public, possibly to sell a product of some sort. The colours in the Savile Lumley poster are quite chalky and old fashioned like the image itself which is very old. I find both of the images really dull and unappealing apart from the charicature of the globe which has character and life unlike the rest of the people in the pictures. I do not know the real purpose for either image so I cannot say whether or not they communicate there message effectively or if they appeal to the target audience or not. I think the choice of font used for either illustration works well with the image more so on the second due to the black background (the Carpet) and is quite hard to see on the floor of the Uncle Sams poster. The purpose of each image is to inform . . . . but to inform what i am not quite sure however I think the meaning of the second image is that children should be encouraged to ask their parents about what happened during the war. I think the social context of each image would have been very important at the time of release as this was one of the only forms of communication which could be used to reach a widespread audience.