Image Manipulation

Image Manipulation

This is the original image I took with Canon camera, taken in the photography studio with the lighting which explains the brightness on one side of her face. We used a black background as it would have been easy to cut out the background if that’s what I wanted to do, but I kept it because it would look unusual without a background.

This is the image once I have airbrushed the model’s skin, using the healing brush tool and pressing Alt to select a piece of skin which I wish the imperfection to look like, to eradicate the imperfection such as spots, birthmarks or moles.

After I airbrushed the model’s skin, I adjusted the hue and saturation of the image by going to Image, Adjustments and then Hue and Saturations to make the highlights in her hair and the red stripes in her dress, stand out.

After airbrushing the model’s skin and changing the hue and saturation levels, I then adjusted the level of brightness so the lighting we used didn’t look as brash as it did in the original image. I also adjusted the levels of contrast to balance and compliment the brightness levels.

After this, I then cropped the image so it would fit on an A4 page, and I then placed it into another Photoshop document and started to build my front cover. This is the final image that I used for my front cover.