Construction example2 - Anita

This is the original photo I'm going to edit. I liked this image because Charlotte's arms and Henrike's arms were in line and the photo had a good symmetry. The idea behind it was "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" which could be related to their particular album or band.



I didn't really like the white background and thought it looked too simple for a Funk magazine. It also washed out Charlotte's and Henrike's skin tones. I first duplicated the background layer, and put the brightness all the way down for the layer.




I then used the eraser tool on the top layer and started to rub out the model's faces and clothes so that they would come out brighter, because of the background.


This is what it looked like with all of them erased, except the background. I used a soft brush with 0% hardness.


I then merged the layers and cropped the photo slightly.



Then I decreased the brightness slightly and increased the contrast so that the colourful clothes would stand out more.



This is the finished photo. I like it as the focus is more on the models and the darker background makes them stand out. The eraser created a kind of glow around them as I didn't want the edges to be blunt and noticeable.