The document describes the photo editing process used to create a poster for a horror genre project. Key steps included whitening the boys' eyes to look "possessed", adding a sepia tone layer at 50% opacity, overlaying a scratchy texture for an antique look, applying a fade effect from the bottom up, using an antique colouring effect to lighten the dark image, adding a burnt border around the central image using the burn tool, increasing the contrast and saturation of the central image with the curves tool, and randomly burning parts of the central image to make it look older and damaged.

1. Photo editing process…
By Stephanie Caldecott

2. This is an original image which I
chose from a selection of potential
photos to use as the central image for
my poster. I took the pictures in black
and white mode to make it easier
change the colours of the image.
I used the paintbrush tool on
Photoshop to white out the eyes of
the two boys on my picture. I did this
to create the ‘possessed’ look which
is a generic convention of the
unnatural horror subgenre.

3. I then created a new layer and
used to paint bucket tool to put a
brown colour over the layer. After
this, I changed the opacity from
100% to 50% to create a sepia
effect over my image.
To give my picture an old, worn
out, antique look, I found a scratchy
background design and lowered the
opacity. I then layered it over my
image to add the scratched effect.

4. I then decided to look at the
simpler photo-editing tools that
Weebly offered, and found a fade
effect which I applied to my image
from the bottom upwards.
After applying the fade effect, I
liked the look of the image but
felt it was a bit dark. To make the
picture lighter, I applied the
Weebly antique colouring effect
which worked on my picture.

5. To create the burnt, faded boarder
around the central image of the two
faces, I used the burn tool with black
colouring to blend in with the black
background.
To create the intense colouring
of the central image, I used the
‘curves’ tool to change the
contrast and saturation of the
image.
I also used the burn tool randomly
on different parts of the central
image to make the picture look
older and damaged in relation to the
old, damaged town of Woodwich.