Manipulated Images

This first image is obviously manipulated in the sense that the top half of the man in the photo is chasing his lower half. The first manipulation done was most likely selecting the man's top half and moving him over. The top half of the man's shadow was also moved and placed nicely. Both the body and shadow had to have been reduced in size as well to give the effect that the top half is behind the lower half. After this was done, some clone stamping had to be done in order to fill the background space behind the original location of the man's top half.

 

 This next image is manipulated in order to give the frog very happy face. The mouth is obviously either taken off of a human's mouth. Simple lasso-tool use can get the smile off of someone's face and then by pasting it in the correct area on the frog will allow the picture to look good when blended together. Some other blending was done in order to give the frog more human-like lips as well.

Type & Contrast

This is an example of a good web page layout. It is the CNN.com home page. The web page has a good design because the text stands out on the nice and simple black background, and there are well placed text boxes and images that are clear. All of the text is easy to read and nothing seems to be out of place or difficult to see or distracting.

This is an example of a bad web page layout. As you can see, it is another Myspace page design for a random person. The background is the first thing that catches the eye. It's also the main component of this distracting web page. There are so many different images collaged together in order to make up the background that you clearly cannot focus on the actual page. The boxes containing text and links are simply blended in with the background seeing as most boxes on the page have images themselves such as the "Friends" box. It's hard to tell what is part of the background and what is part of the web page itself.