The document summarizes edits made to a photo of Sophie in Photoshop for a front cover. It describes fixing a gap in her hair using the lasso tool and layers. It also details removing her shadow to focus on Sophie and make her stand out, and experimenting with changing the background color to blue but deciding to keep the original color instead as it looked more natural.

1. Photoshop
(Picture for the front cover)
By Chloe Burley

2. Photoshop
• I have edited a picture of Sophie for my front
cover and here is the journey of the picture, in
photoshop.

3. Photoshop
• Here is the beginning of the
journey of the picture of Sophie.
• It is a mid shot, she is standing to
the side so she is standing in a
natural pose. rather than a forced
one.
• This then makes the front cover
look more inviting because the
pose it natural, like what normal
people do.
• So she is the same as an average
person rather than showing off that
she is famous.

4. Photoshop• As you can see in this first
photo Sophie has a gap in
her hair.
• I fixed this by using the
lasso tool, pick a matching
piece of hair, then clicking
control and shift C then
control and shift V. That
then gives it its own layer
and then you give it a mask
and feather it 6 pixels, which
bends it in.
Before
After

5. Photoshop
This is
before
(left) and
after
(right)I
fixed her
hair.

6. Photoshop
• In this screenshot I have gotten rid of
her shadow.
• Getting rid of the shadow focuses the
readers eye on Sophie.
• It also highlights her in the photo, so
she stands out from the background.
• I got this colour by clicking ALT and
selecting a colour from the original
background.
• Then I used the paint brush and
painted around her to even out the
background.

7. Photoshop
• I decided to change the
colour of the background to
blue.
• However I don't think this
has worked, so I'm leaving
it as the original colour that I
painted it.
• This is because it looks
more natural.

8. Photoshop
This is what my
background
picture will look
like.