The document describes image manipulation steps taken on a starting image. First, the magic wand and paintbrush tools were used to make the background fully white. Then, the image was scaled up and the smudge tool was used to refine hair and shoulders. Finally, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and other tools were used to enhance lighting, eye and lip colors, and hair brightness.

1. Image Manipulation
This is my starting image. The first thing I did was use the magic wand tool; this worked effectively as
the background was mostly white, but had patches where it wasn’t. Therefore I went over the
patches with a white paintbrush so that the background was fully white.
I then scaled the image so that Laura was bigger and there was not a lot of free space. I also used the
smudge tool around her hair and shoulder area because there were chunks missing out of them. I
also refined the edges of the photograph so that her body blended in more.

2. I then used the brightness and contrast to enhance the lighting of the photograph. I then used the
paintbrush to and colour extractor tool, to make sure that her eyes were the same colours. I used
the white paintbrush tool to add some circles into her pupils so it shows the light reflecting out of
her eyes. I then used the polygonal tool to select her eyes and lips and I inserted new layers to
change the hue and saturation tool. This was to make her eyes a brighter blue, and her lips a
brighter pink. I also cropped off her right shoulder as the edges were not refined enough and they
had a very jagged edge. I then selected her hair with the polygonal lasso tool. I changed the
brightness and contrast so her hair would be lighter.