The document describes how an image of an actress was manipulated in Photoshop to portray her as pale and ill. Specifically, the color balance was adjusted to make her skin appear paler, a blue tint was added to suggest illness, and the background was altered to block out writing and make the face stand out. Features like eyebrows, lips and eyes were also adjusted using selection tools and color balance to further emphasize the unnatural pallor and link her features to the sickly skin tone, highlighting that she is meant to appear dead.

1. MANIPULATION
OF IMAGE

2. I first altered the image by changing the colour balance to the
actresses skin tone. I changed the cyan level to lower than
average, in order to make her seem paler than originally. By
cutting round the face with the pen tool I was able to focus on
only altering her face and neck; by doing this the red marks
became a bit bolder and lighter, standing against the pale skin
tone. However, this also effected the running mascara and dark
marks on her face, making them fade slightly.

3. I then altered the colour balance on the whole image to give a
slightly blue tone; making her pale skin seem ill. I then used
the eyedropper tool to get the same colour tone that is behind
the actress’ face and used the brush tool to spread this over
the bottom of the image; in order to block out the writing on
her t shirt. Also, this helps the face stand out and makes it
seem ill compared to the black, plain background.

4. I first enhanced the black lines and running mascara on the
actress’ face by using the same brush tool and altering the
opacity level when adding in the lines under the eyes to make
the black marks faint or bolder. I then neatened this by using
the eyedropper tool and getting the red used on the mark to
spread over the mark further; to make sure it was a consistent
colour. As well as using the eyedropper tool and brush tool to
make sure all of the actress’ face was evenly pale.

5. Then, I used the pen tool to cut around the actress’ eyebrows
and used the brightness/contrast levels to make them darker
and bolder; standing out against her pale tone. I then used the
pen tool to cut around her lips to alter the cyan and magenta
levels to lower to make them seem duller and give them a
blue tint to coincide with her skin tone.

6. Finally, I made a slight change to the actress’ eyes by
cutting around them with the pen tool and using the
colour balance to alter the cyan levels; giving them a
slightly blue tint to further link to her skin tone. By
using this tint I’ve made her features seem off and
abnormal to highlight the fact she’s dead.