Front cover: Photograph manipulation

I inserted my image onto Photoshop, as I have said in the last post, I will need to remove the shadow. I had no idea how to get rid of it quickly so I decided to cheat and use a rubber to clear away the shadow. 

I zoomed into the shadow and chose the right rubber size to clear away the shadow, I had to be very cautious making sure I didn’t accidently rub anything else other than the shadow. I had to rub out some of her hair on the right side of her shoulder as it looked weird as it was just hanging there, it didn’t look right. This took me five minutes to complete. I also slightly re-sized the image so it could be place perfectly onto my cover. 

As you can see the shadow has gone and you can’t even tell there was one in the first place. Now the image seems much more better and neither does it seem unprofessional. Before I had added the image onto Photoshop it had looked really bad compared to the others but after clearing up this one little problem now it seems to be much better and the quality suddenly seems to be better. 

I also added vibrance to my image, this made the colour of her lipstick pop out more. Now the image seems to be much clearer and it stands out. From my research I had found out most people find the image to be the most effective feature they look out for. If I used my blurry image from before then it wouldn’t bring people in and may put people off from reading the magazine any further.