This document discusses different methods of sourcing images and their advantages and disadvantages. It examines sourcing images from books, Google Images, stock image libraries, and taking your own photos. For each method, it provides examples of potential advantages such as finding unique personal experiences from books or the ease of Google Images. Disadvantages include things like lack of copyright free images or the time it takes to find the right book. The document also covers processing images through cropping, scaling to different sizes, adjusting resolution, and manipulating images with tools like Dodge and adjusting contrast/levels.

1. Task 5
Swara Sawirs

2. Images sourced from books:

3. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
The advantages of sourcing images out of a book is that you will find special
content and personal experiences that you may not find anywhere else. Books
hold a special connection, they will be written by someone or a team of people
who would have researched the topic, gone out in the world and got their own
images and that is what creates a more personal connection with the audience.
The audience know those images are definitely real, they are not fake.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
You may not find the type of book you're looking for, or it might take you a while.
Finding the right book which will contain the information or topic you're looking
for could be tricky. So therefore, you may have to research online, go to library's
and other places such as museums until you find the right book. It can take a lot
of effort and time to find exactly what you are looking for.

4. Images sourced from google images:

5. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
Sourcing images from Google images is great because it’s very easy and
simple. You can search for exactly what you want and Google will do it’s best to
try to show you all the images that may interest you. It’s very easy, all you have
to do is just type in what you are looking for then save the image/s you like.
Google can show you images of anything and everything, whether it’s a
celebrity, a location, a rare animal specie or even a certain cake. It’s very useful
and helpful.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
Disadvantages of sourcing images from Google images is that the image may
not be copyright free so therefor, if you use the image anywhere, try to take
credit for it, display it or edit it at all, you could be done for copyright. To avoid
this issue, you have too filter your research which could be a challenge if you
are on a short time limit.

6. Images sourced from stock image library:

7. Images sourced from copyright free site:

8. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
The images are copyright free, which means they are available for reuse and
modifications. It means you can select the image you want and use it. Stock
image library is great because it stores all your images online, which means
your work will be backed up.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
Copyright free images are good, however, they could be hard to find. It may
take a lot of time to find the right image which will be copyright free.
Stock image library's means that your work will be saved online but if someone
finds it, they can use it which won’t be very helpful if your images were going to
be used for a certain project.

9. Images sourced from your own existing images:

10. Advantages of sourcing images this way:
Advantage of taking your own images is that you get to see the real location or
event with your own eyes. You could take a picture of a rare sunset and you
would of witnessed it yourself, sometimes you could be lucky enough to witness
something special happen and then be able to capture it on camera. The
images you take, are yours. You don’t have to worry about copyright or how you
use your images. They are yours to play around with and display wherever you
want.
Disadvantages of sourcing images this way:
Disadvantage of capturing images yourself is that you could lose your camera
anytime or lose the software you saved the images on, which will mean that
your work could be lost and if you haven't backed it up somewhere else, that
could be an issue. You could struggle with capturing your own images if you
don’t know how to use a camera and it’s settings very well, which means you
will need to take time out to learn how to use the camera and the settings.

11. Processing
Images

12. Original image:

13. Cropped image:

14. Scaled images: A4

15. Scaled images: A5

16. Scaled images: A6

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

18. Advantages of different resolutions:
Having different resolutions is good because it helps you maintain the quality of
the image in case you decide to crop it or print it out. Using different resolutions
will help you adjust the size of the image. The internet uses small resolution
images which will help it work faster on the internet.
Disadvantages of different resolutions:
Small images with small resolution means that the image can be very pixelated
and can then result in a bad quality image.

19. Manipulated image with appropriate caption:
Explain the changes you made to the image and explain why you made
those changes:
I used Dodge tool to make the image lighter as it was lacking light on the
ground aspect of the image. I then played around with the contrast and levels
to make sure the image had the right balance of contrast and black. It took me
a while but after a while, I managed to achieve a overall good image. I then
used black and white to simply turn the image from colour to black and white.
Then I used hue saturation to bring out certain colours in the images such as
the greens, reds and yellows. This helped me make certain parts of the cloud
stand out as well as the ground looking lighter and clearer than before.