Process of Photoshop

This photo was my first attempt of taking my Photoshop skills further, incorporating coloured backgrounds and shapes into the photo. I did not feel confident with presenting this photo as a product of taking elements of what I learnt and having this as my finale piece. I feel as though this photo has no structure, no sense. I did not feel as though there was a colour scheme, or even a theme that I could work with. The choice of colour in the background was not eye capturing enough for me, and, over all, the photo looked 2D to me. Due to my dissatisfaction, I decided to use the same photo of annaleigh, but edit in a different way.

 

I used the same image as the previous attempt. My original idea was to edit the words "happy go lucky" so they would be the opposite of the emotion displayed. This idea changed as I went on editing and changed different elements.

 

 

I used the magnetic lasso tool to crop the part of the photo that I needed and placed Annaleigh in front of a background. After realising that I did not like the colour on my previous attempt, I played around with colours like bright blue's, greens and purples.

 

I finally found a background colour I liked. The colour also highlighted even more so how dull the colours in the photo were, so I upped the contrast and brightness on the image of Annaleigh to bring the image forward more and make it stand out more.

 

I then played around with the colouring / pencil tools on Photoshop to edit her hair and make it look as though it was hand drawn. There was no particular reason for this; it did, however, teach me more about the different ways I can use tools to manipulate an image.

 

My attitude towards shapes with this image was different before - it made all the difference. Whilst before, I was using shapes of butterflies and random line shapes that didn't fit any theme, this time I used mainly circles, and simple shapes as I found that in this instance, simple changes were more effective. I also chose a colour scheme for the shapes I inserted in the image, I found this looked more professional.

 

This was my final product. The theme that I chose was space, hence the inserted planets that are placed in the background. I think the cluster of shapes are appropriately placed, and I was careful to make sure it wasn't too crowded, as I was aware of my canvas size. The space theme then linked in with the words "Down To Earth" that I used.