Editing Steps for Photoshop Front Cover Image

Henrietta Dent

I put the Original image put into Photoshop

I duplicated the background layer in case of any mistakes during the editing process.

Went on enhance – adjust colour – colour variations

I played around with colour variations until I found the colour variation I was happiest with.

The colour variations I chose, this made my image look colder with a purple tinge, I liked this as it made the photo have a retro/vintage feel.

Converted the image to an a4 sized page and made sure my image was in keeping with rule of thirds.

Used the bucket tool to fill the blank space at the top

Went on filter - filter gallery to see weather any filter affect would add to my image.

I found that adding the grain filter affect to my image to give more vintage/retro feel which went well with my magazine genre indie/rock

After adding the grain affect I went on enhance – adjust lighting – levels.

After adjusting the different channels in levels I decided that rather than having a bluish tone to the image (which made the image darker) that increasing the red tones and decreasing blue tones added a yellow glow to the photo which I preferred as it added a warmer feeling to the image.

I decided to use a photograph I had previously taken of traffic at night to overlay on the image of Claudia. I had taken it with a long shutter speed. After overlaying the photo of traffic on the image of Claudia I changed the opacity of the overlaid image to blend it in with my front cover image. I wanted to give the effect of show lighting.