Applying photoshop to my college mag cover.

-With my initial knowledge of the basics, i was able to perfect my picture quality. I did this by using the magnetic lasso to cut out my inconvenient background light switch and delete it.
-I used the blemish brush and the blur tool to correct skin imperfections in my models skin.
-I also used, firstly the colour selector to find the exact colour of her lips, and used the paintbrush tool to perfect gaps in the lipstick of my model.

- After adjusting the hue/saturation of my picture, i then used the magnetic lasso a second time to duplicate the picture and move it to the left of the page to fit my flat plan. This is because when displayed in a shop, the left side of the magazine is usually seen, therefore this is where i plan to put my masthead. I then went on to delete the original image using the draw lasso.

After adjusting the hue/saturation of my original wall background to give a choppy effect, i was able to paste my masthead (from dafont) as well as taglines from word onto separate layers. I have used orange and purple as a colour scheme, as these are opposite on the colour wheel and are thus complimentary of each other. After almost completing the additions to my photo however, we realized that it was not fitted to an A4 magazine size. There i restarted on a new window, copping and pasting aspects of my cover that i thought effective, and taking the opportunity to change those that weren't.

I had to begin my selecting a new A4 piece of paper and fitting my photograph to it, without stretching the image. This allowed me to make appropriate changes.

I therefore decided to add a block colour background to make a statement colour scheme using the bucket too, as well as only adding minor hue/saturation adjustments to my picture. I also used the hue/saturation to change the colour of my masthead to match my background colour.

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