Editing my front cover

The tools I used to manipulate my picture

The programme that i used to edit all my photo was photo shop. I feel that this was the best software as it has all of the key things i need to edit my photo.

 The Brush Strength & Clone Tool

The Clone tool is used to 'copy' a piece of the image in one part of the picture and 'paste' it on to another piece of the image. I used it to make my models have clear skin. With this tool I am able to choose how hard or soft I want the brush and how big the diameter is. The brush is used with the clone tool. Choosing how hard or soft it is helps to create a different effect on the picture in editing and depending on the size of the area I want to clone i can choose how big I want the brush tool to be.









The Crop Tool

I used the crop tool to crop one of my models out of the picture, this is because having 2 models helped to make my photo more focused and their expressions were able to be seen clearer. The crop tool makes you select the bit of the image you want and deletes the unwanted pieces of the picture.

Effects on the Image

Here it shows you all of the different things used to edit my image. I changed the Brightness- This helped to make my picture look much happier and welcoming. As well as this i edited the hue/saturation to make it more colourful and not so washed out. All of these helped to make my front cover image look more inviting and my models complections look better, as well as this the background looks much brighter whereas it looked very dim in the photos.








Hiding Guides

As you can see here I have hidden my guides and rulers and locked my column guides, this is so I can see what my front cover looks like without the guides round the edges and also helps to keep my front cover looking proffessional.

Magic Wand Tool

I used this tool to select certain parts in my background so that I could edit them out. I drew around the bits I wanted to eliminate and then I selected a colour that I wanted to fill them with. In my background I had a very obvious red border that I wanted to remove so I coloured it in grey. This helped to draw more attention to the models