Thursday 29 March 2012

Using Photoshop to edit our photos

When we tried to capture our main photos for our poster and digipak, we came across a few complications, including a conflict with brihgtness and sun exposure. To help conflict these problems, we decided to start using photoshop. I have had some experience with photoshop in the past, but nothing past creating simple images using basic tools. To improve our photos, we needed to remove shadow effects, as well as make the photo seem natural.

We first started by using the eyedropper tool to mimic the colour of the background, and try to blur the shadows into a similar colour to the background, however, the eyedropper tool was not advanced enough to mimic the texture of the wall, therefore only mimicking the colour slightly, and creating too much of a smudge effect, making it look like someone had drawn on it. This was undesirable, as the picture looked extrememly unprofessional.

We then decided to use the rectangular marquee tool to section a piece of the background off and try to fade it onto the shadow, making it look

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