Using various editing tools in FORTE Magazine, Hannah Penton demonstrates skills for retouching and enhancing photographs. These include the history brush for retrieving original hair color in black and white photos, changing opacity to alter image prominence, and the healing brush tool for removing skin blemishes. Cropping and selection tools are also shown for isolating parts of images. Maintaining the aspect ratio is highlighted as important for enlarging pictures without losing pixel quality.

1. FORTE Magazine:
Skills Development
By Hannah Penton

2. History Brush – Keeping original hair colour on a
Black and White Photo
Using the history brush
Original
tool allows me to obtain
Photo
the original colouring
from the original
picture.
By using this tool I
can change the
softness of the
brush as well as the
size to accurately
retrieve the hair
colour only.
This is the final
product after all
To change the photo the black and white, I alterations
went to image  adjustments and choose
black & white. I also edited the contrast and
brightness of the image to create more light
and shade.

3. Editing writing
Masthead
To begin I simple typed the title into a text box
but making a space to fit in the letter ‘R’
In another text box I typed To change the direction of the letter I free
the letter ‘R’ transformed the layer and maintained the
aspect ratio.
Then took the right side and dragged it
over to the left to flip the letter.
All I needed to do is move the ‘R’ layer into the space and then Linked layers
link the two layers together and thus creating my masthead.

4. Additional Writing
Stroke skills
Making the text yellow will allow me
Tool to add a black outline to make it
stand out more.
Double clicking the
layer opens up the
‘Layer Style’ panel I
then chose the option
for stroke.
To change the weight of the outline
I did was move the dial on the
‘size’ option to increase its size. If I
wanted I could have changed its
colour but black was what I
needed.
End product

5. Opacity – changing picture
strength
Before:
This the
picture after I
had edited it
with
contrast, brigh After:
tness, tone, s Once
hadows and changing the
highlights. opacity this is
the final
product of the
image that will
be the
background of
the Double
page spread.
To change the opacity I doubled clicked on the image layer and
simply moved the dial from 100% to 58%.

6. Custom Images
To create the flowers in the
corners I found the custom shape
tool which allowed me to find this
rose image.
Once creating the image to The opacity
how I like the colour is jet has changed to
black which is so strong to 3%
match the layout of the DPS
so I need to change the
opacity.
By duplicating the By placing the
first rose layer I image layer
can now flip the above the two
similar second rose layers the
layer to face the image will be in
opposite way to front and the
position in each roses will blend
bottom corner. behind it.

7. Healing Brush Tool – making skin blemish free
To use this I had to
This tool is on the selected the area I
sidebar and I want to copy by
simple selected holding the ‘alt’ key
this image. any click on the
specific area.
The image here shows the selection
on her hand that are red to I will aim to
cover it and make it blemish free!
After using this brush over the selected area
this is how it has changed – there is now no
more redness.

8. Contrast and Brightness
To change
Origina the photo I
After
l photo go to
turned to
adjustments
Black and
and then
White.
pick
‘brightness
and
contrast’.
I can move
the dial up
and down to The final
change the image.
effect.
I ended up
on -25% for
brightness
and 100%
for contrast.

9. Shadows and Highlights
Original Again going to
photo. adjustments and
finding shadows/
highlights
By doing this is can make
the photo more defined
and the centre image can
be more focused and less End photo
shiny from the lighting in after
the photo. editing
This image was
changed to 0%
shadow and 32%
highlights

10. Cropping/ Magnetic Lasso Tool – selecting an image
out of multiple images
Original Using the
photo selection tool I Selection
created a box tool on
around the the
image I want sidebar
crop out of the
whole photo
The
After the finished
To crop lasso tool has photo
the selected the once
selection I area I can moved
go to move the onto a
‘image’ image on its new blank
the ‘crop’. own onto a page.
new page.
This is
now just
the area I
wanted.

11. Maintaining Aspect Ratio - to keep a pictures pixels
To enlarge
Because this photo I
the image ‘free
is so small transformed’ Then to stop it
I want to it by going from losing
enlarge it to image quality I need
without it and to select
loosing selecting maintain
quality free aspect ratio
transform! on the toolbar
Then by dragging
the corner
outward will
increase the size.
End photo.
Then at the size I
want I pressed
entered and the
image had gotten
bigger but didn’t
lose any quality.