Image manipulation is everywhere in our daily lives. It is a type of digital art. It is a unique way to describe editing photos and adding filters and special effects to photographs in order to make an illusion or define through digital means. Photo manipulation has been commonly used to deceive or convince viewers. It can be simply a photo which colors have been converted, or a photo that has been painted over, usually they use photoshop, but there are other software’s what can we use for manipulating images, image manipulation is an art as well. Photo manipulation is done for variety of purposes. The pictures are manipulated in darkrooms for decade. Before computers, photo manipulation was achieved by retouching with ink, paint, double exposure, piecing photos or negatives along in the darkroom, or scratching Polaroids. Airbrushes were additionally used, wherefrom the term “airbrushing” for manipulation.
Tanuj Singh, is an Indian artist specialized in Photoshop Composition and Manipulation. He started this it as a hobby, and later became a passion. He is proud of the fact that he gets so much love support, and appreciation from the artist community. The message he wants to give to his fellow artist members is, “An art is an art, no matter how big or small impact it creates on the mind of the viewer.”
When asked What is the importance of art for a student in your view? He said, “Students now days are under constant pressure, so to divert some of the pressure and to bring out the real creativity art is Important for every student out there.” almost everything we see today from the billboard ads to magazine covers; we see several photographs that are purposefully manipulated to either sell a product or an idea. Photo manipulation as a work of art is one of the better sides of photo manipulation for it promotes both creativity and thinking as an artist and a viewer. These images have a major effect on the society as it initiates critical thinking and several issues with photo manipulation have risen since it became popular in the 1920s as it is easy to deliver a message through images and portraits.