Photoshop Practice

Before: This is the portrait that I started with, and I got this picture from google images. 

After : This is my finished result, after I had finished editing it in photoshop. 

When I had chosen this picture, I opened it up in photoshop using Bridge. I first used the lasso tool to draw an outline around my artists so I could delete the background and just have the image of them, and then copied it onto my page in photoshop. I then used the eraser tool to go around the edges, to soften it and get rid of any rough and jagged edges. I used the magnifier so I could zoom into the different areas of the image to make it more neat. 

Once I was happy with this I slightly enlarged my picture, so it would fill up more of my page. I then manipulated the colour of the image by changing the saturation, making them darker with a slight shade of red. I then went back onto google images and found an abstract image to fit the background of the image. I changed the layers by putting the background as the first layer so it would fit behind the image of the band. I was pleased that I had decided to change the scripts colour as it stands out more compared to the bright background. I also slightly changed the background colours slightly, by making them brighter by editing the colours in the tools menu, and also made the saturation lighter to make it contrast against my chosen artist more.