Cover Image

After taking 60-70 photos with my digital camera I uploaded the images to the computer and chose the most suitable ones for use in the magazine. After consideration, the image chosen for the front cover was the following:

This photo (already cut out onto a background with the polygonal lasso tool) shows a single person as apposed to a band to focus in and enhance the impact of the image. The guitar faces the audience whilst the figure faces away showing the 'face' that he shows the audience whilst not revealing his true face. This also links with the title of the magazine, 'infamous', in that he doesn't want to be seen by the camera.

I used a number of photoshop functions to turn the first image into the second one. First of all I cropped out parts of the image that would not appear on the cover. Next I used the adjust hue/saturation option to enhance the lighting and tone. I darkened the guitar using the burn tool to have less reflections as it looked a little grey. When I was happy with the colours of the photo I focused on the features of the model. I used the spot healing tool to get rid of a birthmark on his arm and even used some copy and pasting on the hair to even it out (on the right side he has more hair on the second image above the guitar). The final modification I made to the image was using the patch tool on the shirt to remove some of the wrinkles. This was because the shirt was actually a little small on the model and it made it look more fitting.