The document describes edits made to an image for the cover of a horror magazine. It begins with an unedited mid-shot photo of the main character in a suit with lighting on one side of his face. Using Photoshop, the editor cut out the character's head, smoothed his skin, changed one eye to red, added shading to emphasize two sides of his personality, and adjusted brightness, contrast and tones to make him seem creepy. The final edited image presents the character as having both good and bad sides to suggest more about the horror film itself.

1. Magazine Front Cover
Main Image
Screen recording video of how I edited the image will be
inserted below.

2. Image Before Edit
• The image I wanted for the magazine
was a mid shot of the main character.
• I wanted light to shine on one side of
his face whilst the other side was in
darkness, which was done using the fill
lights.
• I wanted a still expression to not give
too much away about the character
and to show he is unpredictable.
• He is wearing a suit to show he is a
businessman with a normal life and it
seems he is just the average guy.
• The frame taken included his shoulders
as well as the top of his head to allow
the whole image to be in the magazine
and make it easier to edit later on.

3. Image After Edit
• Using Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 I edited the image of Adam for
the magazine.
• I began by cutting out Adam’s head from the background using the
‘Quick Selection Tool’ and zooming in to make sure there was no
background and it seemed seamless. This is so it would blend in
with the dark background more and fits in with other horror
magazines.
• I also smoothed out Adam’s skin using different tools including
inverting, using High Pass, Gaussian Blur, Spot Healing Tool and
the Brush Tool. This is conventional to do to make the character
seem more smooth and seamless and show a lack of
imperfections.
• I changed the colour of the right eye to red using tools such as the
Lasso Tool and creating new layer masks and playing with the
saturation of the colour. This was to emphasise that his character
has two sides to him and makes the dark side seem more sinister.
• Using the Brush Tool in black with a low opacity I shaded in parts of
the right side of the face more to emphasise that one side was
dark. This created a half and half effect showing the character has
a good and a bad side which suggests more about the film itself.
• Finally I adjusted the image using brightness, contrast, shadows,
highlights, saturation and vibrance. I made him a lot more
shadowed and darker as well as a cooler skin tone to suggest a
more creepy character. This makes him seem unusual and fits in
with conventions of other horror magazine images.