The document summarizes the editing process the author took to prepare an image for use as a magazine cover. They cropped the image to remove extra background, increased the brightness and contrast to make it stand out to their teenage audience. They used auto contrast to lighten it but this gave it a yellow tone, so they used hue/saturation to remove the excess yellow. Finally, they adjusted the curves to further refine the brightness levels, producing the final cover image.

2. This is the image I liked best after the shoot so I decided to use this as the image on my
magazine cover., I just needed to edit it firs t so I went on to Photoshop and the first thing I did
was crop the image down to get rid of most
of the background.
Then I changed the brightness and
contrast, as I wanted all the images in my
magazine to be quite bright so that they
would stand out, mainly to my teenage
target audience, but first of all I just made it
lighter so the background was more white.

3. So to make this image just a little brighter to start with a added the auto contrast effect.
Although this effect gave it the brightness that I wanted it gave it a yellow tone that I did want
in the photo frame but no as much in the rest so to get rid of this I went on the hue/saturation
effect so that I could change the lightness level a little and the saturation level. Then I changed
the brightness and contrast slightly.

4. The last thing I did to my cover image was
change the curves so that I could change
where the brightness would be and where
would be lighter. Then I had my final image.
Final image. Original image.

5. Final images