Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Comics and Content in Hyatt Regency Austin

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Tuesday 15th March 2011

• Your Caption Here: How-to Manipulate Images Without Photoshop

  by Austin Kleon, Drew Dernavich, Jessica Hagy, Maris Kreizman and Ross Nover

  We all know how easy it is to doctor an image with Photoshop, but there's an even easier and low-tech way to alter an image's meaning: just change the caption. It turns out that pictures can say whatever we want them to say, provided we use the right words. In this session, we'll get the lowdown from a panel of bloggers and cartoonists who have elevated captioning to a brilliant, often hilarious art form. We'll learn why the old writing adage "Show don't tell" is useless, and how a picture might be worth a thousand words, but when it's paired with a caption that deepens, expands, or redefines its meaning, it can be worth a million.

  LEVEL: Beginner

  • Blogging
  • Comics
  • Content
  • Copywriting

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Tuesday 15th March

  In TX Ballroom 5-7, Hyatt Regency Austin