Construction examples - Anita

This is the original photo I'm going to edit. I particularly liked this photo as there was eye contact between the model and the camera with would give a bigger impact on the audience and they would feel more involved and emotive with the singer's feelings.



First of all, I cropped it so that it gives a better composition and it creates more of a mid shot. Then I used the clone tool to clone a bit of the lines near the floor out. I used a soft brush with a 32% opacity so that it can blend in more.



I then used the clone tool to take out the logo on the model's top as it looked distracting and takes the attention away from the face. I again used a soft brush with 32% opacity.



I then desaturated the colours slightly and then decreased the brightness and increased the contrast to give a mysterious look and to add more shadows to the photos as I thought it was too bright.



The above photo didn't work and it didn't fit into the genre of Funk, so I decided to make it more colourful. I Duplicated the background twice so that there were three copies. I then used the photo filter tool and changed the colour of each photo putting the density to 100%. I chose the colours blue, yellow and red.



I then erased parts of each layer to reveal the one under it to get a 3 tone photo after I merged the layers. However, I thought the background was still too bright, so I wanted to make it a bit darker. I duplicated the background again and put the brightness down so that the whole photo was darker. I then used the eraser tool with a large diameter and about 20% hardness and erased the part where the model was so I got the background of the current layer and the brightness of the model on the layer below.



This is what the bottom layer looked like, which was too bright.



I still didn't like how the blue didn't stand out as much as the other colours, so i duplicated the layer and added another photo filter of Cyan to a 100% density so the colour stood out more. I then used the eraser tool on the top layer to rub everything away except the blue background bit. I then merged the layers.



This is the finished photo. I really like the way it looks as the colours go really well with the magazine and genre.