EDITING: Editing an image

Before Editing

This is the original photograph that I took at my first photo shoot with Darcey. I am considering using this photo as a possibility for my poster, as I really like the positioning and the pose that Darcey is in. However, I am not very happy with this image, as it is very dark and there are a number of shadows due to the lighting that was used. 

To edit this photo I used Iphoto. I lightened the photo several times, as this made the background white so that Darcey stood out. I also used the warmer tool, which warmed up her skin tone.  Next I changed the level of exposure from 0.43 to 1.99, as this adjusts the overall lightness of the image. Then I enhanced that contrast from 0 to 46, which adjusts the difference between the light and dark tones. I also lowered the saturation of the image from 55 to 3, as this alters the colour intensity. I increased the definition to 9 but I lowered the shadows to 14, as when I brightened the image shadows appeared around Darcey. I increased the sharpness to 3, as this sharpens the focus. I also increased the de-noise tool to 9, which smoothed out the grainy quality of the image.

These are screenshots of the levels that I altered in order to improve the quality of the image and make it brighter.

After Editing

This is the result of the image after editing it using Iphoto. The image is now much brighter and Darcey is more visible. However, I now need to get rid of the shadows which have appeared around Darcey in Photoshop. This will improve the quality of the photo even further.

Editing The Shadows

The next stage of the editing process was to remove the shadows in Photoshop. I did not really know how to do this so I looked on YouTube for a video, which explained step by step how to remove the shadows. This video was really detailed and helped my to achieve a solution.

After removing the background shadows I then went on to remove the shadows around Darcey. I did this by using the quick selection tool in photo shop to select the entire picture. I then used the brush tool to go over the red areas, which I wanted to get rid of. This enabled me to be more precise and accurate around Darcey in order to create a clean line.

This is the finished result after using the quick selection tool in Photoshop. It has completely got rid of the shadows that were behind Darcey. I have also adding a background colour in order to make it brighter.