Second recreation – Butlins Photo

Original picture I am recreatingFirst I use the brightness and contrast effect. Because the original images is quite dark I used this effect to make my picture darker by turning both the brightness and contrast down.

Next I used an effect called replace colour. I used this so that I could make the bright colours in my recreation picture like the red coat and the glow from the sun darker. It gave my picture a duller look.

I used the selective colour effect, this made the red blazer look the darker red it is in the original picture.

The next effect I used was called colour balance. I used this to make the background and my whole image more dark blue and green like in the original.

Next I used the clone stamp tool to copy some of the dark grass from the original picture and colour it over the grass on my recreation so that it will have the same dark grass in some parts.

I then used the clone stamp tool again to copy the pavement in my recreation picture and just make it cover up the grass in the picture. I did this because I wanted it to look more like the original with the grass on the left and all pavement on the right hand side.

I used an effect called levels next to give the whole picture and the bits I’d edited darker.

I used the colour balance again to make sure all the bits I had edited were also dark like the original picture. I focused on the cyan and blue bars to make my picture more green and blue like the original.

Then I used the lens correction effect on my picture. I changed the amount of vignette on my picture and turned it up. This gave my picture dark corners coming into the picture.

Next I used a texture effect called grain to give my picture an aged look. The original was a bit blurry and grainy so I think this effect worked well on my recreation.

The I added the Gaussian blur effect to give my whole picture a blur just like the original. In the original picture the face and the detail in the picture is blurred and not very defined so I copied this when editing my picture.

I the placed both images on a new Photoshop document and I resized both images so they was the same size and I put my recreation below the original.

Then to give my mirroring effect I rotated the recreation picture so it was upside down compared to the original.