This document discusses image editing techniques used to create a final image for an advertisement and digipack cover. The original image was cropped using the rectangular marquee tool and inverse selection. Then the hue and saturation were adjusted to remove color and set the image to black and white. Finally, the hue/saturation layer and image layer were merged. Additional effects like blur and sharpen tools were used to manipulate the depth of field and make the artist stand out from the background respectively.

1. By Georgia McLaughlin

2. Final advert main
image
Original advert main
image
For this presentation I will discuss what I did In order to achieve this final
result for my image. The image above was used as the main image on my
advert and the back cover of my digipack.

3.  1 – Crop using
rectangular
marquee tool. Right
click and select
inverse. Finish by
pressing delete to
remove the excess.

4.  2 – Select
hue/saturation in
adjustments on the
menu on the right
side and set
saturation to -100
then adjust the
black and white
setting to suit the
rest of the images

5.  3 – Select the hue
and saturation
layer and the
image layer right
click and click
merge layers

7. A final effect I used quite
frequently was the blur tool. This
allowed me to create the
appearance of shallow depth of
field in some of my pictures.
In opposition I also used the
sharpen tool add clarity to the
artist. This was mainly used on
the cover image to make the
artist stand out. In this case I
took two copies of the image on
one softened it with the blur tool
and on the other cut the artist
out using the lasso and quick
selection tool and finished by
using the sharpen tool and
placing the image back in place.