Manipulation of original photography

Front cover image:

Before

After

This is the main image I have used on my front cover.

As you can see in the first image it is quite pale and washed out. There was also a lot of empty space.

I edited the colour to bring the colours out and make them stand out. I adjusted the contrast to make it stand out further making it look more dramatic.

I also cropped the image so there was not as much empty space. By cropping it, it fit the magazine front cover exactly meaning I did not have to stretch the image in any way.

I edited the photo by using ‘smudge’ to blend colours. I used it on Katie’s shoe as grass was poking up from the ground. It made it look unprofessional therefore smudged it.

Contents page:

Before

After

This is one of the three images I have used in my contents page.

As you can see in the before image it is quite dark and the shadows are very dark making the image not look that good.

Therefore I edited it, I changed the colour balance to make it lighter, this makes the shadows fainter too. I slightly adjusted the contrast, this made the shadows even fainter. It also made the colours of the dress and the model herself stand out even more.

I had to shrink the image to make it fit on the contents page. To ensure the image was still in proportion I press ‘CTRL’ and dragged the image

Double Page Spread:

Before

After

Here I have ‘cut’ around the image of Katie, I cut away the background so it is only Katie. I used a variety of tools including magnetic and polygonal lasso tool. This allowed me to manually select sections to cut away. I also used the magic tool as it selects large sections so I can select larger parts. I adjusted the contrast and brightness to make the photo look more

dramatic. I also adjusted the size of the image to make Katie bigger and stand out.

Before:

After:

In this photo I have again cut around Katie so there is no background. I used the magnetic and polygonal lasso tool to manually cut around Katie as well as using the magic tool. I adjusted the brightness of the photo to make it brighter as before it was dull. I adjusted the contrast and exposure to make the photo look more dramatic and model like. I have also adjusted the size of the image to make Katie larger and stand out. Finally I used the ‘smudge’ tool. This allows you to smudge colours. In this case there were bits of grass sticking up so it was on Katie’s legs and hand. I smudged the colour of her jeans and skin in order to get rid of the grass.

Background image used throughout:

Before:

After:

This is an image of a brick wall. It is used throughout my magazine as the background image. As you can see in the ‘before’ image is was dark, dull and contains unwanted black parts at the top and bottom. Therefore it was not good enough for my magazine so I edited it. First of all I adjusted the size of the image, by using the crop tool I cut out the unwanted black parts to make it look batter. I then adjusted the contrast, brightness and colour temperature to make it look dramatic and stand out.