Expressions are the most powerful assertions of ones existence, identity, legacy, aspirations, hopes, despair, and all other human emotions. They are the ultimate vessels of meanings. Since man learned to express himself, he used several media- words that are best represented in the form of prose and poetry either oral or written, movements in the language of dance, sounds through music, and the most powerful among all, visions through paintings, photos, and drawings. In contemporary times, photographs have become the most favorite style among all visual arts due the availability of affordable user-friendly digital cameras, power shots, and editing techniques that could render photo art.

Magnificent Techniques

Anyone who would love to paint but do not have the facility or training in mixing colors, drawing, and rendering their visions through pure raw talent could still express what they want to tell the world through using photo art techniques. Some of these magnificent empowering techniques are:

• Photo manipulation where colors, contrasts, brightness, and sharpness could be adjusted with such great speed, efficiency, and effectiveness. In fact, objects in the photo could be moved from one place to another in the picture to achieve the much needed texture, sense, and theme. Whatever the shapes of the objects are, they could be integrated or disintegrated.
  
• Object removal allows the objects that are undesirable or not within the scope of the theme of the pictures to be taken out and/or replaced with so much convenience.
  
• Retouching of pictures to make the skin of the subjects clearer, their teeth whiter, and their hair full and vibrant. Through it, red eyes could be corrected.
  
• Rendering of different and many layers on top of each other and creating one photo out of several images could be quite magical to any untrained eye and quite cool to those who know photo art.
  
• Adding illusions of motion and blurriness to the photos to convey the message that the picture is alive.
  

Magnificent Uses

Pieces from this form of art provide so much fun and pleasure to many people. They are useful because they could be perused as any of the following:

• Magnificently amazing wallpapers that can be changed from one day to another. Computer users would surely love to customize their desktops to suit their professions or occupations, family lives and lifestyles, preferences, hobbies, and peculiar habits, and their online lives.
  
• Entertain friends and colleagues by sending them copies of pieces of photo art through electronic mails, 3G, and even blue tooth technologies. Include in messages witty or funny lines that could make them smile or even smirk.
  
• Inspirational and symbolic gifts either via electronic media or printed and personally handed. They will make great tools of reflection and meditation too because they could be edited and designed in a way that could hypnotize or relax whoever is looking at them.
  
• Architectural and engineering photo art exudes innovation and ambition thus pieces of them would be able to enhance the image of business firms regardless of products and target markets.