Editing my photos

I have used Adobe Photoshop to edit the photos I have taken and printscreened them to evidence the process. The main features of Adobe Photoshop I used were layers and layer masks.

Here are the photo's I have edited for my magazine:

The idea to edit the image is to add various photographs taken at Renegade Live and create a college which will be used on the contents page to give the reader a visual insight into the feature article.

This is the photograph I will use for the background of the collage, I have decided to use this because in the business environment ladies are often used to promote the event ans this photograph it is directly advertising Renegade Live through the females in the photo.

I have selected various photographs from the collection and added them in seperate layers on Adobe Photoshop. I have intentionally left the background layer locked so I will not be able to make any accidental changes to the main photograph.

Next, I created layer masks on most of the layers and used a selection of the brushes and opacities to delete the backgrounds of the layered photos and create a smooth blurred look surrounding the images.



The idea of this image is to remove the background from the tickets image and insert images from the Renegade Live launch party to create a fan looking effect.



I decided to take this photo to enable me to put the tickets into the magazine, unfortunately because of the grey speckled background, I was unable to use a layer mask to delete the background, so I tried a different approach in which I created a mask and filled it and deleted the colour fill on the tickets. This also proved to be very difficult.

To overcome the issue of not being able to get the tickets on their own, I scanned my copy of the ticket and cropped it to fit the size of the screen.

This is the scanned ticket.


Next, I recreated the photograph that I had taken, by opening the ticket in Adobe Photoshop and deleting the white background using the magic wand tool. I then copied the layer and duplicated it twice, I then used the tool bar at the top of the page to rotate each of the tickets to a similar angle of the original photograph.

To complete my idea, I scanned through the index prints of the photographs from Renegade Live and selected a few photos that would be able to be cropped and inserted inbetween the layers of the tickets. Originally, the photos I had selected were too wide for the image, so I decided to find longer, narrower images. I opened the images and dragged them onto the tickets image, they were too small so i used the tool bar to change the image size; upon doing this, the whole of the canvas size decreased and a small segment of the image was now visible. To overcome this problem, I opened the photo as a seperate application and changed the size of the original image before transfering it into the tickets image, I repeated this process for the second image. I adjusted the organisation of the layers to enable the look I have achieved, also when added the new images, I tweaked the angles of rotation slightly to improve the look of the overall image, to ensure that the gaps between the images were more equal.

Overall, I believe the editing of this image was very successful because I was able to overcome the issues that I faced.

The idea of the following image is to create a transition between dance moves. I will use layer masks and the gradient tool to assist the editing.

The above images were sourced from the internet, originally they were a video demonstrating a dance tutorial. Whilst watching the video, I repeatedly printscreened the video and copied the printscreen into Paint, I had many printscreens of the dance tutorials so I picked the best looking images from the selection. I then opened each printscreen in Adobe Photoshop and cropped the image so the dance instructor was the main subject in the image with a small amount of the background to the sides of the subject to enable a smooth transition into the next image. I repeated this process for three other images.

I then positioned the images next to each other and resized all of the images so they were the same size. Next I moved the two left images closer together and overlapped them, I added a layer mask and used the gradient tool to delete to background, I then done the same process with the rest of the photos to create a smooth transition between the dance moves to make the image seem as if it was in action. The gradient tool was trial and error to what created the best effect on the image.

The above image is the completed image for the dance transition, it was a sucessful editing process for this image however, it could be improved with the level of the bottom of the mirror being level, but this would need more height to the images which was impossible because with the video, there were subtitles as the instructor was dancing.

The idea for the following image was to create a more surreal atomsphere for the stobe lighting. To achieve this I have used the "Filter" tool bar and selected the brush stroke and experiemented with the different options avaliable, I decided the best look for the image was the "Sprayed Strokes"; with the decision made for the effect on the image, I then experimented with the stroke length, radius and the stroke direction.

The purpose of this image is to get the Renegade logo, originally I had printscreened and edited the logo from the website but from an image from an SLR camera, the quality will be much higher.


I opened the image in Adobe Photoshop and cropped it so the background was deleted.

The cropped image now seems too dull in comparison with the radio stations colour scheme, to overcome this I have selected the fill tool with the default colour black and filled teh black background. To enhance the brightness of the rest of the logo, I have selected a similar colour for the red and the blue text and have fillled these also.


This is the final edited image of the Renegade Live logo.