Editing My Chosen Images

From the contact sheet that I created, I decided that to fit in with the colour scheme of my magazine and to stick to the guidelines of my magazine proposal, I would edit my images so that they are black and white with areas of red. Rather than to continuously screenshot my progress, I thought I would use the app 'Quicktime Player' on my mac to record my desktop as I edited one of the chosen images. I then used the app 'iMovie' in order to speed up the video to minimise the length and add a title at the beginning of the video. I then uploaded it to the YouTube channel that I maintain for my media coursework and embedded it into this post. See below:



To talk through the process of the editing, I firstly opened the image that I wanted to edit by selecting File > Open, and then selected the image I desired. I then added a black and white adjustment layer over the image (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Black and White), in order to make the photo black and white. As there was red originally in the image, I decided that I wanted to bring all of that forward within the black and white. To do this, I identified the areas of red in the original image and simply used the eraser tool to erase the areas of the adjustment layer that weren't required. This would then erase the adjustment layer so that the original image below would be visible, therefore making the red visible. I varied the harshess depending on how I wanted the red to blend out into the black and white, to create the desired natural look. I lowered the harshness on the outer areas of red and heightened it towards the centre of the areas of red. I then used the miser brush tool and blended the areas red into the skin, in order to expel harsh lines and create a natural effect. I completed the image by saving it as a JPEG as this meant it would save as a copy (Photoshop document + JPEG copy), and would be able to be opened within other photoshop documents.