What Does the Picture Say?

In the few pages that we were required to read in "What Does the Picture Say?" has opened my eyes on how many children, teens and adults rely on the internet and social media to see pictures. By that I mean, they don't actually see it in person, they see everything from behind a cell phone or internet screen. To begin with, what does Intertextuality mean? The definition given to us in this article means, "It refers to the ways that texts, whether written or visual, are interpreted one in the light of another to produce new meanings." (Werner) I understand from this meaning is you see one image either in person or one computer and from there you may interpret your own meaning from that one image. You as a person may see something different in each photo because "interpretations are influenced by what is both inside and outside of a picture’s frame." (Werner) Werner also describes in what I think is his main purpose in a form of questions, those questions are: "What is intertextuality? What forms does it take? What are the implications?" (Werner) We base our findings and thoughts of two images off of those questions to allow ourselves to fully explore our own meaning of an image.
Adding to this, implications are often brought onto a picture such as "textbook writers are similar to newspaper editors when selecting and matching material" (Werner). The main purpose for implications is to only allow readers to see or think what the writer provides for them, in this case selective choosing of images, enhancing and altering them.


Questions:
1. How are writers able to get away with the altering of images just to make readers see and believe what they want? I believe everyone thinks differently, therefore it could not always work.