The story behind the picture

Bonjour Heroes.

Here’s what I’ve been working on for this demo: “…a simple interaction… using just one illustration.” Which image? A photograh? Am I allowed to do that?

I’ve had a book for years: “The 100 Photos of the Century” (you can, of course, find a collection of 100 “other” photos online). I’ve already used several of them in previous demos.

Here’s one.

This simple interaction could be a template for a course on how to interpret an image (press cartoon, illustration, photograph, election poster, advertisement, even map, etc), explore its context, and learn the story and the history behind the picture.

Never assume you can understand an image at a glance. Especially these days with AI. Critique it. Question it. Explore it. Who? How? Why? For whom? From whom? Since when? Why now? Pretend the image is lying... to prove that it tells the truth. Or the other way round.

Tool: Photoshop on a photo that isn’t the best quality, sorry.

I might have been able to achieve it with SL’s shape merging tool, but overlaying part of the image with its shadow underneath is a bit tricky.

Have a good week.

Note: Looking at Jodi and Jayashree’s projects, I realize that a significant part of the challenge was to use “vector graphics” rather than images (i.e., possibly photos). I jumped in too quickly and with too much enthusiasm, and now I really feel like I’m way off track.

The story behind the picture