The document describes editing a portrait image for a magazine cover. The editor first adjusted the hue and saturation to make the tones slightly more blue, reducing the brightness and contrast. This was done to make the image look more professional than if it was too bright. Next, the color balance was adjusted by raising the red, magenta, and blue slightly to make the image and model look warmer and more approachable.

1. Editing Portrait Images
Cesca Haig

2. The first thing that I did to this image was
change the hue and saturation, hue referring to
the tone of colours. I made the tone slightly
more blue. The saturation is the intensity of
the colour selected and how much grey it
contains. This made the image less bright and
reduced the contrast, I did this because i think
if the image was too bright that it wouldn’t look
professional for my magazine cover.
I then changed the colour balance, I raised
the red and magenta, I also raised the blue
ever so slightly. I think this makes the image
look better as it makes the image warmer and
the model more approachable and friendly.