Photo Editing

Photo Editing

In media, photo editing is a common technique used to perfect or at least altar the image, before making my magazine I decided to try some editing for myself so I get a bit of experience and I know how to improve images, I'll know what looks good and what doesn't. To make it easier I got a photo off the Internet with something on the photo that I could clearly edit and improve.

I decided to get a picture of a person with something I could edit, I found one of a person with quite a few spots which I could edit out making the person look better in the image. In Adobe Photoshop I used the specific tool called the ‘Spot healing tool’ which allows people to get rid of all spots by clicking a part of the image and using it to ‘cover’ the spots. For this example I used a part of the person’s forehead to cover the spots entirely. It took me quite a while to perfect the image as it didn’t always turn out what I expected it to be as it didn’t look very natural which is part of the aim for editing.

Overall, even though this task sounds quite easy and simple it’s relatively far from it as you have to spend a lot of time making the image look better than before but also trying to keep it natural looking.

 

The two photos below are the original and edited photos I did, It's pretty obvious which one is the original and which is the edited picture, if not the first photo is the original one that I got off the Internet and the second one at the bottom is the edited one, as you can see all the spots have gone and in my opinion the image still looks relatively natural.