Abbie Corbett documents her process for editing an image in Photoshop for use as a magazine cover. First, she crops the image to focus attention on the subject. Next, she adjusts the brightness and contrast to improve the image, setting the brightness to 33 and contrast to -1. Finally, she uses the Dodge tool to selectively remove the gray background color, replacing it with white to make the model stand out against the background.

1. Abbie Corbett
Image Manipulation in Photoshop-
I am showing an image that I
have used as my magazines
front cover page. Firstly, I
needed to crop the image, as
if I would have put it onto
my magazine as big as the
image was taken, when
adding the text, the image
would be getting paid less
attention to.
Once cropping my image down, this is what the outcome looked like.
After I had cropped my image down,
I now wanted to change the image
properties. So therefore, I went onto
Image>Adjustments I didn’t know
what exactly I wanted the photo to
look like so by choosing
adjustments, I looked around for
properties to change in order to
improve the image as much as I
could.

2. Abbie Corbett
After selecting Image>Adjustments I
then selected Brightness/Contrast in
order to change the brightness and
contrast of the image.
This print screen shows how I have
selected different amounts of brightness
and contract from a scale. I moved the
scale and left it when I thought that my
image had been changed enough. So my
image brightness is now 33 and the
contrast of the image is -1.
I then wanted to remove the background
colour by some sort of way. I didn’t want
to full remove the background by
selecting the Quick Selection tool or the
Magic Wond so I decided on an alternative
way. I went over to the tools and selected
the Dodge Tool.
Once I had selected the Dodge Tool, I could
then change the brush style and size so it
was easier for me and I slowly and carefully
began to remove this dull, grey background
colour, so the background of it began to look
white, which made the model in my image
stand out a lot more than before.