📸ten tries✂️crop🎨filter🧺tidy first☀️only good days
A picture is one moment, picked and polished.
The big ideaOnline pictures are often picked and edited. Be kind to yourself, and talk to someone.
How it works
What Imani scrolled through was a highlight reel: the best bits, picked out of many.
There are five ways a picture gets polished: choosing the best of many tries, a crop, a filter, tidying first, and posting only the good days.
So a feed shows more sunny days than there really are. A holiday can be real and still not be the whole story.
Comparing yourself is something lots of people do. If you feel flat, that is allowed, and you can tell someone.
Five ways a picture gets polished.When you feel flat.
Example 1: Odette's lunch
Odette took ten photos of the same lunch and kept one: 10 − 1 = 9 photos thrown away.
She put parsley on the plate and slid the laundry behind the sofa.
So her picture had four of the ways: ten tries, a crop, a filter and a tidy-up.
Example 2: A crop
A crop cuts the edges off.
The crumbs and the messy corner vanished from the picture.
But the mess is still there, just outside the edges.
Example 3: A kind word for yourself
Nana asked what Imani would say to a friend who felt flat.
Imani said: your comics are brilliant.
Then she said it to herself, and went red.
What Imani did.
Words to know
highlight reel
The best bits, picked out of many.
crop
Cutting the edges off a picture. What was outside is still there.
filter
Something that changes the color and the light of a picture.
feed
The pictures and posts you scroll through.
Watch out
Not every picture is edited. You cannot always tell by looking, so remember that it might be.
Counting likes or checking pictures for an hour can make feeling flat harder.
Feeling flat is allowed. You are never in trouble for it, or for telling.
If you feel flat a lot, tell a grown-up, because they can help.
Try it
Odette took 10 photos and posted 1. How many did she not post?
After a crop, where is the messy corner?
Name two ways a picture gets polished.
You feel flat after scrolling. Who can you tell?
What can you do to feel better?
Answers: 1. 9 · 2. Still there, just outside the picture · 3. Any two: ten tries, a crop, a filter, tidying first, only the good days · 4. A grown-up · 5. Put the tablet down and do something real
Try at homeAsk a grown-up what they do when other people's pictures make them feel flat. Then take one real photo together, no filter.
For grown-upsAsk your child what they do when other people's pictures make them feel flat, then take one real photo together with no filter. If it happens a lot, talk about it.
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