This document summarizes edits made to a photo in Photoshop to prepare it for use on a magazine cover. The original photo showed a woman in normal clothes. Areas like the background, nails, and watch were changed. The background was removed using the Quick Selection tool and filled with white. The nails were painted over using the Brush Tool matched to the dress color. The watch was removed and sleeve lengthened using the Clone Stamp tool.

1. Photoshop
By Lucy Burden

2. This is a presentation to show how
I edited the image for my magazine
front cover using Photoshop so it
looked more professional.

3. Here is the original image
This is a long shot of the character of the mother who will appear in my
teaser trailer. She is wearing normal clothes to show she is an ordinary
woman that people in the audience could relate to.

4. I then took the image an identified areas that I wanted to change to make it appear
more befitting for a magazine front cover. These are circled above.

5. The first step was to get rid of the background completely. This was
done using the ‘Quick Selection’ tool where a specific area can be
selected and then filled with one colour. When I had finished this
and was left with just the character in the picture I used Microsoft
Publisher to make the white background transparent. This allows
me to layer images and text later on for the magazine front cover.

6. To make the nails stand out more I used the ‘Brush Tool’ to simply
paint over them. I decided to use the same colour as her dress and
achieved this by using the ‘Eyedropper Tool’ where I simply clicked
on an area of the blue dress to get the exact colour match.

7. I decided that I wanted to get rid of the watch in the image and
lengthen the sleeve on the cardigan. I did this using the ‘Clone Stamp’.
This works by clicking an area you would like to be repeated and then
drawing it in where you want it. I was able to choose the size of the
brush and how soft/hard the edges were so I could make sure that it all
joined up and looked believable.