Editing Photos. Blog 7

To make my magazine look like a professional magazine i had to edit my photos, i did this using photo shop.
This photo that i used as the front cover image needed to have a transparent background so that when i placed it onto the front cover it would be able to go on top of a coloured background of my choice, which would then help make it more appealing to my target audience using colours.
This print screen is of the original image before i used photo shop to edit it.
I have changed the layer to layer 0 which then means it has been unlocked and the background can be transparent. If i don't do this then the background will be white.

This print screen is showing how i used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the background, i did this by going around the subjects in the image. I found this quite hard to do because if the area that you are using the magnetic lasso is light and blends in slightly with the background the tool can't find the defining line that it would stick to, this means that i had to start again quite a few times to get it just right and to get the tool to go around the parts that i wanted it to.



After using the magnetic lasso tool i needed to select the background so that i could delete it and make the background transparent. To do this i went to select, then inverse.








After selecting the background, i needed to get rid of the background. I did this by pressing, apple and X, this deletes the background and shows the image in front of grey and white squares.







To save this image with a transparent image, i went to file, save as and changed the format from photo shop to photo shop PDF, this means that when the image is on Indesign there is n background and it can just be placed on top of the coloured background, this makes it look much more like a pop magazine.






For the rest of the images i used i did the same thing as i have done above apart from a couple of images.

This image which is used on the front cover needed to have a theme with it, the theme for the band 'The Queuetee's' is pink so i decided that i wanted to use a pink background behind the subjects in the photo. To do this i did the same as the main image on the front cover which was the use the magnetic lasso tool to cut the background out.
In this print screen i used the magic wand tool to select the background, this means i could use the paint brush tool to paint the background without going onto the image, this way i could get a clean and neat edge of colour.

This print screen shows how i could use the paint brush tool freely all over the image without it going on the subjects. Again i wanted to use a bright pink to go with the theme of pink with 'The Queuetee's'.







This is the finished image that i used on my front cover. I think it work really well because it is bright and colourful which appeals to my target audience.








With this image i needed to get rid of the background so i used the same technique as before, this time i am using this image for a slightly different purpose, it is going to be used for a prize. I needed it to have a signature on it so that if the reader wins they can see that they win a signed photo of one of the members out of 'The Queuetee's'. Showing my target audience what they could win in picture form shows them what they could win and is easy for the reader to know what they are getting and will want to enter the competition.