I choose this photo from stock exchange of the Luxor hotel building from Las Vegas, Nevada, because I lived in Las Vegas for a good majority of my life, and I've always thought this building was very interesting. I manipulated this photo by inserting my face in place of the sphinx face.  I manipulated this aspect of the my photo by adjusting the hue and staturation as well as the brightness and contrast.  I also altered the color by using the dropper and paint brush tool.  I was able to smudge the lines of my face to blend in more.  Another transformation of the photo is I painted the nails of the sphinx by adding shapes and painting them pink.  They last touch which I feel was very vital was the text.  This shows that my alteration were only made in fun.  These alterations were not harmful because they were only made in jest.  I was not trying to harm anyone by creating this, and there is nothing really too controversial about it.  Recently, it has become quiet a controversy about manipulating pictures.  Mike Rossner's article "The Journal of Cell Biology" discusses image manipulation a bit.  It discusses in different terms than I have though of before though.  He identifies image manipulation as a form of "scientific misconduct."  It is not   a lot easier for anyone to manipulate images.  Because of this fact, people don't realize the impact of transforming a picture.  This is a very tricky subject and as our technology increases this image manipulation will seem to be more of a problem.  We just need to educate people on the impact of image manipulation and as long as they are aware hopefully they wont use image manipulation in harmful ways.

Citation

Mike Rossner, Kenneth M. Yamada "The journal of Cell Biology"Vol. 166, No. 1 (Jul. 5, 2004), pp. 11-15. Published by: The Rockefeller University Press