An advantage of sourcing images from books is that they may contain images of extinct animals not found online. Books also contain older styles not seen in recent online images. However, finding books on specific topics can be difficult and accessing images within books may not yield the needed images. Google Images provides easy access to millions of images but their copyright status is unknown and resizing may reduce quality. Specifying criteria also limits options. Stock image sites ensure resolution and allow repeated use but images cost money and can look staged. Personal images allow customization but quality depends on camera skills and equipment. Different resolutions are suitable for different mediums, but higher resolutions have larger file sizes and lower resolutions appear pixelated

1. Images sourced from books:

2. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
One advantage of sourcing images from books is that it means that you can find images
that might not be online, an example of this is if you want images of animals that have
gone extinct there might not be many images online as they went extinct before the
internet was used for images, so books might have images in them of the animals that
you want to see.
Another advantage is that there will be a wider range of styles in books compared to
online. This is because online it will show the latest trends, whereas books will have old
styles as well.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
One disadvantage of sourcing images from books is that it can be difficult to find books on
the certain topic that you need to get images from. For example I found it difficult to find
books with images on animals.
Another disadvantage is that online books are difficult to gain access to, and even once
you gain access the book may not contain any images or it might not contain images that
you need.

3. Images sourced from google images:

4. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
An advantage of sourcing images off of google is that there are millions of images that are
easy to access at anytime that you might want them.
Another advantage is that you can be very specific about what you want in the image, for
instance you can search for a certain resolution or size.
Also getting images offline means that you can get images that you would not be able to
take. For instance you could get an image of a beach in Australia, I would not be able to
take this image because I am not there.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
A disadvantage of sourcing images off of google is that if you just take an image off of
google you do not know if it is copyrighted or not, so you could use a image that you do
not have the rights to and might get into trouble from that.
Another disadvantage is that if you pick an image it might not be the right size and then
once you resize it it will loose quality. Also if you do search using a specific criteria for the
image then your range of options is limited and you might not find the image that you
want.

5. Images sourced from stock image library:

6. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
An advantage of sourcing images from stock image sites is that the images will be a good
resolution and you can choose for it to be a certain size.
Another advantage is that once you pay for the image you can use it multiple times over
multiple different areas, for instance you can use it on multiple different websites.
Also there will be a wide range of images in the library, and you will be able to find very
specific images with their search tools.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
A disadvantage of sourcing images off of stock image websites is that you have to pay for
the images, the cost could be quite high as well depending on the size of the image.
Another disadvantage is that the images can tend to look quite fake or staged, this can be
difficult to get around if you want a candid image as there will be very few on the websites.

7. Images sourced from your own existing images:

8. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
An advantage of sourcing images from your own library is that the images are personal to
you, so the image can be however you want it to look. For instance you can take specific
images that you want that you can not find on google or stock image websites.
Another advantage is that you can take images anywhere, due to cameras in phones
becoming high quality, meaning that the images you take can be just as good as images
on a digital camera. With the phone camera being really good means that you can take
images on the go, so if you see something you can take an image instantly anywhere.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
A disadvantage of taking your own images is that you might not get the settings of the
camera right and the image could come out badly, it could be over or under exposed.
Another disadvantage is that if you use your phone camera the quality might not be as
good as with a digital camera. Also when using a phone camera you can not change the
ISO or the colour balance, so you can not use any creative techniques that you could with
a digital image.

9. Processing
Images

10. Original image:

11. Cropped image:

12. Scaled images:
A4
A5
A6

13. Resolution image:
300dpi for print
72dpi for web

14. Advantages of different resolutions:
An advantage to having different resolutions is that the image can have a certain
resolution depending on what it is needed for.
Another advantage is that if your image is at a small resolution then it will have a smaller
file size, this means that if the resolution is smaller you can keep more images.
Disadvantages of different resolutions:
A disadvantage is that images that have a small resolution will not look as good as images
with high resolutions, this means that the images with higher resolutions will look better
and appear less pixilated when scaled up or down.
Another disadvantage is that images that are a higher resolution have a bigger file size,
meaning that you can not keep lots of images that have large resolutions.

15. Manipulated image with appropriate caption:

16. Explain the changes you made to the image and explain why you made
those changes:
I started to edit the image by using the quick select tool to select the whole of the cat,
then I created a layer via copy, this made a copy of the cat. I then changed the hue and
saturation of the cat layer and made the hue red toned, I also added more saturation and
made it slightly darker. Once I did that I reduced the opacity so that the coloured cat
would blend into the background better. After that I changed the background layer so that
it was black and white, I did this so that the cat would stand out against the background.
Then I created an adjustment layer and changed the brightness and contrast so that the
image would be darker so that the cat would blend in more. I also then changed the
colour balance so that the background would be more green toned, I did this because I
wanted the image to look really surreal and that helped it look that way. After that I
changed the levels so that the image was darker overall, this made the cat bend in even
more. Finally I cropped the image, I did this because the part that I did not crop the cat
did not blend into the image well.