The Amazon Kindle Final

"Photoshop" as a Medium

Photoshop is another modern innovation can be seen as a medium. Though the contents of Photoshop include both images and words, I feel that the main and most important content that it exemplifies are the images. This program allows you to edit images in a variety of different ways. The message that is being presented is a growing ability to effectively allow users to express themselves creatively. There are so many tools you can use in Photoshop to alter images in order to suit your own creativity. You can see your visual ideas comes to life. A user can apply their own style and use the various options accordingly....there are no limits to your imagination in Photoshop!

Questions/Updates to Image

The Amazon Kindle is a device that allows people to access a range of e-books quickly. A question that I had about my image is what image would properly symbolize or express speed. I thought about using the roadrunner, but then I felt that people would then associate that Kindle with cable service, which it does not have. I also wasn't sure how to feather the various images. I tried playing around with Photoshop to try and figure out how to feather the image, but that resulted in all the images to be feathered. So another question that I have is how to feather individual images. The final question that I have about Photoshop is whether you are able to grab one particular image within an image. For example, you bring up an image that has 2 people in it. Is there a way you can just select one person, instead of using both?

The Content & Message of the Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is a platform designed and developed by Amazon.com for reading e-books and other types of digital media. With this ultra-light and portable device, users can select and download reading material through the Kindle of through a computer at the Amazon Kindle store. As of July 1, 2009, there were more than 300,000 books available for download.

The content that the Amazon Kindle presents is words, images, sound. Books consist of words, and the Kindle is a reading device that allows users to read text without the physical book. The Kindle has a huge selection of books available, plus top newspapers, magazines and blogs. Clear and sharp images can also seen on this device as well. Not in the mood to physically read? The Kindle has a text-to-speech feature where it can read every newspaper, magazine, blog and book out loud to you.

The Kindle, as well as many other e-book services deliver a message that helps to promote reading. People are spending more time in front of screens and less time in front of printed books. It also does good for the environment. With the elimination of paper, the Kindle helps save trees. It eliminates the need for filling up landfills with old books. This also means it's less expensive. Because they are cheaper to produce, it means that they are cheaper to buy as well. The Kindle is also easily searchable. You can quickly find anything inside the book. Speed can also be seen as another message. The Kindle defies time -- they can be delivered almost instantly. Downloads are transferred to you faster than overnight shipping: in minutes or even seconds!

The Amazon Kindle is just one of the many modern innovations that is changing our technological culture and society today.

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