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PICTURE: Introduction
This picture was altered by compiling quite a few pictures together. It was cutting and layering through Photoshop. The original picture was just the blank text message. I cropped and placed the speech bubbles in to make it look like introduction through narration. The first speech bubble was typed so it would be clear. The second speech bubble was drawn in with a paint tool and made to be red because I wanted it to convey a angry and unstable tone through the font and color. I also cropped in the two bitmojis that are supposed to be me looking back as I tell you this story.
Picture: Come ON
Not a lot of editing was done to this particular photo. This picture had some clarifying done to it because it was blurry. It actually came out clearer and I added a filter that helped with that as well. Further, the thought bubble was layered in so that it could convey my thought process in telling this story.
Picture: Together Forever
The edits to this picture were minimal. A filter was added to light the background. The bitmoji was added as reminder that this is me looking back on my childhood with fondness. It also shows how much I loved being around my cousins all of the time before that changed. I added the words from crib to grave because this was something that my cousins and I would say when we were younger and I thought it also demonstrated the strength of the bond we felt from a young age. I thought it would show how close we all were and continue to be.
PICTURE: Cousin Love (age 2)
For this picture I added a black and white filter. I think this added a feel of age to this picture. I wanted to stress that it was old even further by adding the age of my cousin and I in this picture. I wanted the pictures I used to demonstrate how close were when we were younger to show us close in age but older in each one. Again I weaved a bitmoji into this picture to further represent how happy those times were and how easy it was to be in contact with them.
Picture: Throwback to 2002
This image was manipulated by Photoshop by utilizing layering by cutting, resizing, erasing excess coloring on the cut in picture and the text tool to add a year to this picture. I took a bitmoji, which is that added face in the top left hand corner and placed it into this picture. It is signifying me now, looking back on my cousins, sister and I back when we were younger and pretty much able to hang out every single day. I was about 6 in this picture. This picture is significant to my story because it illustrates the closeness that existed back when it was easier to be together. It also ties to my last picture that shows a more recent picture and it becomes clear how we have all changed but still it is like no time has passed when we get together.
Picture: ways to keep in touch
This picture was not so much edited as it was created on the black screen. I actually took placed my camera on a surface and took a black picture. I then used this picture to put text and bitmoji's on. This picture was used to add some humor into my story. I was using to as an example of all of the different ways that we could communicate. The text was added just to clarify what the mode of communication or transportation we would us to stay in touch.
Picture: Passive Aggressive Snapchat
This picture was used to show how I was trying to communicate my annoyance and hurt that no one would answer me. I did not have the original messages sent as snapchat gets rid of the picture after a certain amount of seconds, so I created this snapchat to represent what the other one would have looked like. I picked a bitmoji and made it really big and added some text to the picture. I also made it so the bottom read that I was sending it out to many people in my family who were not responding.
PICTURE: Insta-Distance
This picture was actually posted on Instagram and was photoshopped to delete names, make reply comments easily read beneath the picture and well as realigned to create a clearer more realistic post after altering names. The picture itself, I selected it and added a blur or grained filter to show how we were so close and yet we are so far now. It symbolizes the strain that distance has put on our relationship. I also It is used as further proof of how we used Instagram to reach out and just let one another know that we missed one another and also provide some evidence that there is distance between us, in communication and in person. This was supposed to also show how we started to use Instagram and I attempted to passive aggressively hint at not seeing or speaking to him in a while. I Photoshopped another bitmoji into this picture that said I miss you because, again, it is supposed to symbolize me at my current age think back over the distance and how our relationship changed.
Picture: Snapchat, but not for long
This particular picture was photoshopped to ensure that the Snapchats were from my cousins. I added another bitmoji that amplified the anger that is felt when my cousins open my Snapchats and do not respond. I also photoshopped the dates so that they spanned a couple months to show how we slowly stopped using snapchat as frequently as we used too. To further that point I added the date at the top to illustrate the date when the screenshot of this snapchat screen was taken. I added arrows and text to clarify what each snapchat would tell the reader as well as to illustrate how I felt about never having my snap answered.
Picture: c'mon people!
This Facebook picture was cropped, zoomed in, and I used the blur tool to blur out the comments before the one that I wanted the focus on. I also tried to make the comment I wanted emphasized clarified but this was as clear as it would come. I also erased, or whited out any last names. I wanted this particular comment to be Photoshopped and included because it spoke to an aspect of my narrative that I wanted emphasized. i wanted the reader to understand how our Facebook page had turned into just posting things and liking it rather than having conversations. In this particular post, my cousin went forward and pretty much said what I was feeling at that time and even how I feel about our Facebook page today.
Picture: Individual texting...
The Photoshopping of this picture was to highlight the difference in dates and how even individual texting did not work to keep some of us connected. I also whited out information that was not necessary to the picture. Basically I used the select tool to pick the specific part of the screenshot and cut it. I was then able to keep it on the same picture but make it bigger. After making it bigger, I gave the particular selected aspects a black shadow or glow so that they would look like they were popping out of the picture. I wanted the focus of the reader to be on how far apart the texts were.
Picture: Maybe Skype will work?
This particular image was Photoshopped to look like a Skype call because despite the original picture actually being a Skype call, some of the identifying aspects were missing. I also added the names of those involved in the group chat at the top so that it was clear who was involved. I added the names of the various places that each of us were at when this video chat took place to illustrate how we were working to connect distances. I threw in a bitmoji because it looked like it was me actually being a part of this Skype call in which you can only see my sister and grandma's hair. Along the top, the words a few months later were placed onto the picture because I wanted to illustrate a change in time between this form of technology used to keep in touch and the form we used prior to it.
PICTURE: Beginning of a Groupchat
As I do not have the original beginning messages of the group chat, I edited this picture to make it look like the very beginning of our chat and how everyone was excited about it. The speech bubble on the right was supposed to symbolize what I said and everyone's responses were to the left. I also added in a bitmoji again to convey the optimism felt when this group chat first started. The fancy responses were used in brightly colored manner and with a heart to further that sense of excitement towards the creation of this group chat. all the items in this picture were cut and layered onto of the original message screen.
Picture: Group Chatting it up!
Only the picture on the left has been Photoshopped. They are side by side because this is how they appear on my digital narrative. I wanted them to represent two different entries in are group chat that appear on top of on another in my phone. When there are side by side you can see the two different manners in which we used the group chat in addition to how these two entries are about a month apart because we all got busy and did not text one another. These group texts were more recent because we still use the group chat every now and then so the bitmoji was supposed to be current me upset that they just stopped responding. The dots were placed into the picture to illustrate me waiting to get a response, similar to what you see on a phone when someone is supposedly texting back. I added the words or don't respond to further stress this point and express my annoyance.
Picture: Picture perfect family facebook group
This picture was to exemplify what our family Facebook page looks like, though it does not look exactly like this in real life, it is close. I added how we used it over time to keep in touch and added some bitmoji just for fun. I Photoshopped the words into the picture to show how we used it over time to check in and see how one another were doing when we had not heard from one another in a while. The I love you guys bitmoji was added to just emphasize how much I loved being in touch with one another and the Family Only with the bitmoji was added because it is a special page that we created for us. This picture also shows how we added more members (at the top it says 12 members) as we added some more distant cousins because, well, we could.
Picture: Better with age
Finally, we have this last picture that I Photoshopped in an attempt to bring the story told through my pictures come full circle. It is a picture of my cousins, my sister and I all together about 11 years after that first picture on this page was taken. I added the words across the top to clarify this fact in case it was not picked up on by the reader. I placed the words love ya in the corner because I also wanted to emphasis that despite the distance and frustrations due the distance, we are still super close and I love them all so much, if not more that I did when I was little. The year was cropped into the bottom corner so that a timeline could be established between the first picture and this last one. Lastly I cropped in my bitmoji in the top part of this picture, pointing to us because i just wanted to point out that we are all still close and love one another and how much we have changed.