Editing My Cover Image For My Music Magazine

Editing my Cover Image for my Music Magazine

Melissa chin

Before.....

First I made sure that the page was on an A4 setting i

did this by going to file- new-blank file. Then I opened up

my image from my documents.

Because one of my models in the picture is a lot lighter I had to change the lightness of the image by going to hue and saturation and changing the brightness, to make the

image darker, so that I could see the features of the lighter model.

After I duplicated the background layer, and I wanted to blur the background and have the three models stand out more, to blur the

whole image on the duplicated layer I went to filter-blur-Gaussian blur and changed the blurriness of the photo to at least 1.2-3 pixels. After this

I used the rubber tool and began to rub away the areas on the models ONLY so that the look sharp and stand out more. As I did this I made sure that I didn’t use the rubber to erase any of the blurriness in the

background.

After this I used an effect on the whole picture called overlay. Which seemed to merge the

colours in the background together.

After....