Image Manipulation, Drafting and Analysis.

After my audience feed back I discovered that some of my images needed to be improved, the two points that needed improved was some images were too bright and didn't fit in with the overall style of the magazine or the backgrounds to the images were boring and didn't reflect the style I wanted. To manipulate my images I used Photo shop CS4.

This original image was too bright and the colours were too natural, when placed on the front cover it stuck out too much, as the background was dark. So to improve the image I started by lowering the saturation so making the colours less bright, this turned the dark blue to black and made the dark edge around his guitar thicker. I think this fits in with my style and makes the guitarist look more like a rock singer rather than a folk singer. The picture still didn't look right on my front cover so I removed the background and left it blank. This made it look much more like a photo shoot rather than a man on the street.

On this image I had the same problems, it was on the front cover but was too bright. The main problem was the bright light coming from the left of the image. Again I lowered the saturation so the light was less bright, this made the image darker and overall look more sinister.

I didn't like the background of this picture as it contains my wardrobe and a large shadow so I changed it. At first I made the background plain white but decided this was quite boring and wanted to make it look like it wasn't taken in a bedroom. To do this I erased the background and inserted another layer, this layer was an image of a street, this makes the image more realistic and maybe as if she has been playing on the street. Other artists who have been busking to become famous may relate to this. Once I had inserted this into my magazine I asked for more audience feed back. And I was told that even though it looks good the image still looks manipulated so I kept it as it is but suggested that it is meant to be fake by captioning the image with, "Rose Starr, goes back to the 'streets' "

This image had the opposite problems to the other images, it was too dull and contained to much grey sky. To start I increased the saturation to sharpen the colours, I thought this made the picture look sunnier but the sky was still grey. To solve this I erased the grey sky and pasted in a blue sky. At first the image contained three aspects of Leeds festival. The stage showed the music, the crowd showed the people and the ground showed the mess. But not after manipulating the image I have added the sunshine into the connotations.