EDITED PHOTOS OF ERINBEFORE/AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

HOW I EDITED MY PHOTOS ON PHOTOSHOP

To start off, I use automatic adjustments to correct the colour for me. This is an easy fix as it can be quite tedious sitting and personally doing it. It also means you can focus more on the features of the photograph once the colours have continuity.

I used the manual tool of brightness and contrast to adjust how bright and dark my photo was. This brought out her brunette hair and all the yellow tones of her skin – making her look quite tanned. For my actual Digipak, I used the desaturation tool to make her skin more neutral.

I also used the spot healing tool brush to airbrush her face. This is conventional when creating media products as everything has to look perfect and it also makes it look more professional.

I have also used the Burn and Dodge tool to define her eyelashes, lips and shadows on her body and highlighted the streaks of blonde within her hair to give her a more perfected look. I was able to use these successfully due to my AS Media Studies Music Magazine where I learned how to edit photos.

HOW I CREATED THE POLAROID EFFECT

First of all I downloaded a Polaroid template from Google. Then I opened my edited photo of Lottie and dragged it onto the picture of the empty white polaroid. I positioned and re-sized the image so it would fit in between the lines. I then created another copy of the polaroid and placed it over the picture.

I then used the select tool to select where the box-shape of the template was to put your photo and pressed delete. It then showed the image of Lottie underneath, making it look like a rea polaroid. This was then easy to drag onto a background and add text. This was also done for the polaroid of Erin too.

HOW I EDITED THE CD/DVD

First of al I created a second layer of my CD template and then dragged my photo of the tree onto it. As you can see, the Layer one is in-between these two CD layers, enabling the template to show in front of the picture of the tree.

This then enabled me to rub out the surrounding picture around the template and make it look like a real CD/DVD. This then made it easy to edit the background in and also add the CD/DVD templates to make it look more professional. This was an easy-ay of creating a CD cover and therefore would be easy to use for an independent to create visually-appealing products with a low budget.