This document describes how a photo was taken of someone swinging Christmas lights to create light painting and then edited in Photoshop. The background was colored black, brightness and contrast were adjusted, and hue and saturation were modified to make the lights stand out against the dark background and match the color of the obscured subject. The edited image was then duplicated.

4. This was the image that I originally
started with, we made this image
by one person in our group standing
behind the person that is displayed
in the photograph and the person
behind swung around Christmas
tree lights and then by taking the
photograph with the shutter speed
on we produced this photo.
I then took this image to I coloured the background
Photoshop and began editing it black to ensure that the light
to get this image: painting stands out the best it
could and also to make it
stand out I changed the
brightness and contrast, this
also made the person in the
picture the same colour as the
background which I really
liked and thought it improved
the picture making it looking
better. I then made a copy of
the image and put them next
to each other.

5. I began by changing the
brightness and contrast
as I wanted both the
background and the
colours to appear a lot
darker than they was in
the original photograph.
Also in the original you
could see the person that
was stood in front of the
lights and I didn’t wan that
to be visible in the final
image.

6. I went on to adjustments
and used the
hue/saturation to start
changing the colours of
my lights a little and the
background so that the
lights would stand out
more.
Then I duplicated my
image once I had done all
the little adjustments.