Editing my photo...

To edit my photo for the front cover of my magazine I used Adobe Photoshop.



This is my final edited photo:

To edit it I have done the following:

Firstly, I have edited the brightness and contrast to get the optimal ...

Next, I have duplicated the layer so the same picture is on top of the origianl layer.

I have now applioed a layer mask to the layers and linked them using "Alt + click" to link the layers with the layer mask. I have now changed the colour saturation to make the photo black and white.



I have used the "gradient" tool with the black and white colour selection to remove part of the top layer so to reveal the bottom layer to show the transition between colour and black and white across the image.


As criteria of the proposal, Ihave decided to add some leaves into the final image. To do this I have sourced a leaf and cropped it from the original image.



To make the leaf original and "my own"I have applied several effects to the image:

I then deleted the background from the leaf image and inserted the leaf in layers in Photoshop and rotated the photos to look as if leaves were fallin across the page. This is my final image: