Photo Editing

The photo below was successful as it was more relaxed and positioned within a typical indie rock pose, holding/playing a guitar, sitting down with leg positioned over a leg, showing the shoes and jeans and the model is had made an eye line contact with the camera, as if the 'artist' is making eye contact with the readers, making the magazine more interesting to buy. The clothes were successful also as these clothes as an example are stereotypically worn by indie rock artists. However, this image was not as successful as they were objects such as pipes and a stage in the background and the background was once again not light enough to use. Therefore, I edited this photo on photo shop by using the smudge tool to smudge the background to erase the pipes and bottom of the also. The patch selection tool on photo shop was also used, by selecting and dis-selecting parts of the background, which had no objects, by drawing around them with a line and moving the selected part to the pipes and bottom blue skirting, erasing both the mistakes I did not want included on my image. Also, I adjusted the brightness, making the photograph lighter and whiter and cropped out unwanted parts of the photo, for example the stage and the bottom of the photo, making the image more successful.

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