Saturday, 26 November 2011

Artist Photo editing session.

For our website we are going to need a few images of the artist. But all the images must uphold the artist image when have decide to go with. Vintage, Creative and Abstract are the three main aspects we need to meet. We also need to show the artist is a independent and from a bold perspective. Below is one image I have done on Photoshop today. This website could be part of a running gallery or used as one of the pictures on the digipack. The picture on the left is the final outcome.

Firstly i started by using the 'Magic Eraser' to delete the green background behind her. However i had come to realize that even when the lights were placed behind Lily and only onto the green screen some diffused green light still glowed onto her back. However after adjusting the hue and saturation along with decreasing the brightness and increasing the contrast I managed to reduce this.

I then decided to make the top black, I achieved this by using the Lasso tool to select her dress and then decrease the Hue and lightness. I then played around with the brightness and contrast to still show the detail  and fold in her dress. This picture to be used for another picture to show her emotionally vulnerable like she is going to be portrayed in the narrative part of the music video.

I then started adjusting the curves of the pictures to make her top look bright to give make her look more bold and strong.
I next created a new layer behind her and then used a soft paint brush to give a defused but vibrant background chowing her as abstract and creative.
Next i selected that layer and then added a lot of Gaussian blur to make it look defused and blurred. I didn't want the colors to be too strong as it would not suit her image.
Next step was to create a new layer and then use a low opacity soft paint brush and do a rough drawing style outline around her and bring out some features to make the image more creative and abstract. I also added a gradient to the black background and used large black soft paint strokes to separate her more from the background.
I then added the album title behind her to make anyone who looks at it know exactly what this picture refers too.