Obama wins the US General Election November 5, 2008
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The votes are in, as of 4.55AM UK time, and Obama has been declared the winner of the US General Election. He is now ‘President’-elect until 20th of January 2009, will he be in official capacity, in office, the president of the United States of America. In this long campaign, Obama has showed his personal side and his political side, through the use of online media networks and also offline. He has attracted, 18,583,889 channel views, on his YouTube profile and countless millions have viewed other YouTube videos about him and his ‘journey’, he has near 2,000 videos on his account alone. He has been the ‘hype’ around America bringing in crowds of up to 80,000, to listen to his speeches. He has been that ‘life’ being put back into America, which kind of reminds me of the times that Kennedy was in office; bad oman, but true.
He has won on electoral vote of John McCain’s 155, to Obama’s 338, so this is a ‘resounding’ victory for Obama. The aim initially was to get 270 or over for any candidate and Obama has wiped the floor in this case. He is now the 44Th president to be elected into the white house. I can just see him now on the news, he looks so ‘consise’, he knows what’s at stake and he does have a lot of cleaning up to do. He has a national deficit of 10 trillion to clean up, the Iraq war, Afghanistan, the economy, his health care plans et cetera. He has clearly stated that he needs to focus on the economy first, whether that involves his tax plans, the American people will soon find out in 2009.
Bless America for voting this man into power. 
On that note, it’s time to show more images:
I had to set it as ‘real’, real low quality and I can see that a lot of the quality has gone out the window. Nevertheless, you can still see what I’ve done to the background and I have kept the bus to it’s original ’setting’; as it were.
I edited the first image. Here is one I done for John McCain:
I didn’t do that one so good, in a way that I could say ‘I liked it’, however it looks okay and it’s around 6:20am at the moment; so I’m tired right now. Feel free to use them if you would like to!
Obama & McCain edits November 4, 2008
Posted by Jonathan in : Other, application, opensource , add a commentI’ve been tinkering around with photoshop and I’ve edited a picture which I found on Google Images of Barack Obama, a US candidate for the United Sates of America. (Whom I’m a huge fan of) The results in UK time will be announced today, at 11pm on Sky News and of course around the world. Moving on, here is the image I edited:
I edited the second image, with the more ‘bright’ background.
That’s the image I found on Google Images and I must say, it was a nice image to edit, for the 5 minutes I had. Here are the results:
Please click both images, to see the change!
As you can see, there are small changes, I made to the American flag and Barack Obama himself. I’m only doing this, as my sister is in University and she sometimes asks me to ‘re-do’ some of her images that she creates in her media class; to make it look better in terms of quality e.g. Get rid of that ’shine’ mark, or that red eyed effect.
I also done a John McCain ‘photoshoped’ picture. I can’t say I’m the best, but I think, I done a pretty neat job as the original image looked boring and ’samey’. I changed the back ground, like with the Obama image with the ‘Filter tool’, but layering John McCain onto a separate layer via the ‘Quick Selection Tool’, just as I did with Obama’s picture edit.
I edited the second image, with the squared background!
I’m hoping for Barack Obama to win. I like his foreign policy and that he wants to give every American a ‘free’ health care. I mean lets face it, America, one of the worlds richest countries and that has ’some’ if not a lot of influence on the world, has people dying because they are not ‘able’ (In financial terms) to get medical care. - Obama will change that, and that’s what I like; humans being humanitarian. As for foreign policy, Obama is quite diplomatic, and that’s what the world needs under the worlds most powerful and budgeted army!
While I was in Romford, I took a couple pictures of our buses that we have here in the UK, and seeing as I had them on my computer, I thought I’d edit them and this is the result:
This is just a simple “Filter” and ‘Cut out’ effect, and cropping to make the image smaller and more centralised on the bus. I actually like the effect that it gives off and it’s one of those things which you actually see inside the buses with the posters on the ceilings and sidewalls. To see the full visual effect, just click on the images, it’s at the very lowest quality, so it should be easy to load however visual quality, seemed to have stayed the same.
Rest in peace, Madelyn Dunham - She died at the age of 86 of cancer.
I added the ’round’ shade affect to the image.
It’s such a shame, she didn’t get to see Obama become president (I’m guessing he will be, as the results haven’t been released yet), however it’s just sad.
Ten days ago, Mr Obama broke away from the campaign trail to pay one last visit to Ms Dunham, whom he had mentioned at several key moments during his run for the White House.
BBC News - Barack Obama’s grandmother dies
That makes me smile, that he at least visited on the last days that she was alive.