Making Of My First Draft

Making Of My First Draft

1. Firstly I opened up Adobe Photoshop and created a blank A4 file. This was done by going file>new>blank file. A box then appeared. I then clicked on A4 as shown on the right.

2. I then inserted my image onto the A4 blank file. The first thing I done was crop the background out and just have my model to place another background I prefer.

3. To do this I used the magnetic lasso tool. This allowed me to just go around my model

This is the magnetic lasso tool

This is what it looked like after I used the magnetic lasso tool. There was a faint line around my model. As you can see it allowed me to go around my model only.

As you can see I couldn't crop the background from the arm as I can only go around my image. If I tried to cut through the arm to crop the rest of the background it would crop my model. So I have to do this separately.

My image looked like this after. However the background around the arm is still there. To get rid of it I will use the magnetic lasso tool again.

4. To just have the model on a white background I had to copy the image that was selected after using the magnetic lasso tool. This was done by going to edit>copy.

5. I then made a new layer to place my image on. To make a new layer I went on layer on the top tool bar then new>layer. I then pasted my image onto the new layer by going edit>paste.

6. I went round the arm with the magnetic lasso tool. It then looked like the print screen shown on the left.

7. To get rid of the selected area I right clicked on it and selected ‘layer via cut’ shown on the print screen.

8. Step 6-7 was repeated for the other arm.

9. I then made a new layer and inserted my model onto it. It looked like the print screen shown below.

10. The next thing I have to do is add a background. To do this I have to make a new layer to add the background. In the mean time I hid my model layer as I am concentrating on the background now

11. As I want to add two colours to my background I used the gradient tool from the toolbox.

This is the gradient

12. I then picked the colours I wanted by clicking on the foreground colour and background colour

Foreground colour Background

colour

A box will appear which is called the colour picker. The colours I picked is grey and white.

13. Once I have the colours I want I picked what sort of effect I want for my background. I picked the radial gradient effect as I wanted a white circular shape around my model and to fade darker.

14. After I selected the effect I wanted a arrow appeared so I can indicate where I want my circular shape. As I wanted it in the middle I started the arrow of from the middle going upwards to get the effect I wanted. This is shown on the print screen on the right.

My background looked like this after I added the effect. I was satisfied with this so I made my model layer visible to see how it would look like on my background

The print screen below shows how it looked. I was happy with how it looked so I left it like this.

15. The next step I done was write my title and to make my model overlap it I rubbed out a bit of the text of the title using the rubber from the toolbar. After this I had to do is write my text over it. This is going to be done by using the text on the toolbar and I will pick the colours for my text also from the toolbar.