Photo Editing

My main edited pictures are in my double page spread. I had to use Photoshop to edit my photos to cover my models faces with bricks like in the Crystal Castles single cover. I didn't want to copy what Crystal Castles did for their single cover but I took theirs and made it my own. That way when people see my magazine they can identify that the band is supposed to be Crystal Castles. I thought this editing went really well and thought the end product was really successful. The second photo for my double page spread didn't need as much editing, it just needed cropping and the colour of one of my models socks changing as I hadn't noticed he was wearing different coloured socks when I was taking the pictures. Once again I used a idea from a CC single cover but used the same actors as in my first picture. I kept the backgrounds consistent as this way the readers can identify they are from the same photo shoot and as the backgrounds are consistent there is no confusion when people see the double page spread and it will not look messy.

For my front cover image, I changed the colour of the background to black because I thought it brought out the fact I had painted my model yellow making my image more bold and eye catching to the reader. Another reason why I decided to change the background to black was because my original plan was to scan my front cover and put blue glitter on the first two letters of my title as I thought this would look effective. On trying to do so though it made the black less bold and the glitter didn't come out as I wanted it to so I decided to stick to the plainer version of my front cover. The only other editing I did to my main image on the front cover is touching up his gold body paint in places on his arms as in places it had been missed making it look badly made. For this I used the Colour Sampler tool and the Brush tool.

Here are just a few of the tools I used on Photoshop. The first image shows how I used a magic wand tool and the brightness and contrast option to change my models sock colour as I had failed to notice my model was wearing odd socks. And my second image shows how I changed their faces to become bricks. For this I had to take a picture of the wall on its own and a picture of my models in front of the wall. I then layered the photos on top of each other and used the Healing tool to make the bricks go over the models faces. It was a new technique for me and I was very happy with the end result. The last image shows the polygram tool which is similar to the magic wand tool. I used this to go round my model so I could change the entire background to black. Once I had cut my model out with the tool I filled the background using the filler tool. These techniques were new to me and I wasn't very experienced with Photoshop. But I'm happy that I've learnt new skills in photo editing which will help me further in my second year of media.