The document provides instructions for editing a photo in Photoshop to create different visual effects. It describes steps like duplicating layers, flipping images, adjusting brightness/contrast, using selection tools, and applying filters like black and white, color balance, and vignette. The goal is to experiment with blending and manipulating the image layers to produce merged, reflective, posterized, or abstracted versions of the original photo.

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3. By first putting up the
brightness and contrast of
the original image when you
put it into black and white
(auto) it will look much
clearer and will pop out
more

4. Duplicate the layer so you have two of
the images and then use Free transform
(Ctrl + T) and flip the image over so that it
is mirrored to the other one, then repeat
the steps of brightness and black and
white just like the first one then by going
into the layer option drop down bar you
can click either multiply or overlay but I
feel that multiply makes the image clearer
because when using the overlay one side
becomes brighter and the other faded

6. By first using the quick selection tool and
highlighting the lips you can use the
Hue/Saturation Bars to create a colour that
you want to use specifically in the area
selected

7. My preferred method of creating the black and white is easier for me but may
seem more awkward to others, I first use the rectangular marquee tool to
select as much of the image as possible without touching the lips and using the
black and white bars and put it on auto then use the tool to select as much
more as I can and then switch to the quick selection tool to get the bits around
the lips without ruining the colour

8. Then using the circular
marquee tool I select the
eye carefully then press
delete, my original intention
was to delete the iris and
then replace it with
something placed behind
the image but I stumbled
across the content aware fill
a strange effect where the
eye warps was found and I
felt that is was probably
more effective

10. Turning down the brightness and
putting the contrast up fully will
help show the detail later when
adding the black and white
Then using black and
white set to auto

11. Then adding a
vignette in lens
correction it darkens
the corners and
stylizes the image

13. Using colour balance to tint the image to certain colours which will define the colours that
appear predominantly when using the posterize tool

14. Using the posterize tool in image adjustments you put down the number of levels to 2
which will lose some detail but make the colours pop and create a pop art sort of feel I
used different colours for this final image to show the different effects when using
different colours

16. Because the image in itself is a bit out of focus
I decided that perhaps a black and white finish
would help smooth out the look of the picture a
bit so I used the auto black and white to keep
the picture looking as normal as possible for
now

17. After messing around with other options such as adding vignette on lens
correction I decided that the image itself was too boring and then began to
experiment with displacement and reflection and eventually decided upon
reflecting the image vertically. By using the free transform tool after duplicating
the layer I first flipped the second layer upside down and moved it into position so
that the eyes joined together using the opacity tool

18. Then by turning the opacity back up and focusing
on the background I used the magic wand tool to
eliminate the grey leaving only Emily’s head and fan

19. Then using the layer options selecting darken will
overlay the images without a loss of quality or opacity
creating the visual effect of the double reflected face
and for a final touch adding a vignette just to stylize
the image the piece is finished

21. First duplicating the layer and then using free transform to flip the image upside
down and join the lips into a kissing pose and then using darken on the layer
options you will get something like this…

22. Using the rectangular marquee tool to select and
crop the main part of the image deleting the square
straight edges where the other image ends creates
a much cleaner looking image which will then allow
you to change the colours

23. Then using the Hue/saturation
sliders on each separate layer
you can blend the colours
together create a multiple
coloured effective image in just
a few simple steps