Photo editing

Image editing "encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any traditional art medium." I have chosen to edit my images to improve the appearence of the models looks such as the "spot healing tool" which removed blemishes.I Also wanted my images to look profesional therefore it would make my magazine look more "up market" , I did this by adding more contrast and deffinition to the images.Overall , I am fairly pleased with my photo editing , I can see faults however such as when I used the magnetic tool ,I have missed parts of the body out.But overall I am happy with how they have turned out .
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After.. Here i have used the " unsharp mark " tool to give more contrast the image.I also smoothed her skin to make her appear more celebrity like.I also added a white layer over the image and rubbed out her outline so it would get rid of the background and make the image have a more proffesional look.

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Here I have made a mistake and not cropped out the line above the head , this can be easily solved as I could re-crop on photoshop or even paint.

Here on photoshop i have used the "unsharp mask" to give an alternative contrast to my image.I also made her skin smoother by using the skin healing to remove blemishes.I also put a layer of white over the image and rubbed out the model so it appeard to have a white background.This however became tricky when I realised my front cover had different background colours which would make the white show, therefore I made the background transparent on photoshop.

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After... For my front cover I made the background tittle and image all on one layer so that I could straight away have it as my front cover and not have to keep adding a tittle everytime.I choce these colours because they represent the pop theme of bright and colourful.I liked the idea of having white as it makes the image blend in more easily and not have any noticeable errors.Also the colours compliment the blue that the model is wearing and also the red/pink tone compliments the bright yellow of the tittle.