Photo editing trials

Photoshop practice - digitally enhancing photos. 

Editing my drawings. 

I used this image of a family friend's dog, and drew a portrait in pencil, I will be using photoshop to edit this image and bring it to a finish. I will be using this to practice working with online editing software, in order for me to create more detailed final designs when creating my album cover later on. 

I used this image taken of a drawing that I half completed before spilling coffee on the design, I then decided to use Photoshop to edit the image and bring it to completion. To begin with I used the select tool to crop out the section of the drawing that I will be using and slightly altered the angle and perspective to make it appear less like a photo taken by a camera. To start the editing process I firstly edited the brightness and contrast, which made the background and foreground stand apart and enhance the over all quality of the photograph. I then used the clone stamp to select and area of white and then used this to fully cover the entire background in white, I believe this was suited to the style of drawing as it's a portrait and busy background would divide focus from the centre piece. Once I had manipulated my image to a higher level of quality I then decided to work on colour and how best to depict the colour of the dogs fur without distracting from the real detail, to do this I worked with the hue and saturation and increased the yellow and red colours. To finalise I then used the colour settings, went to 'auto' and selected 'normalize' and 'white balance', after I'd achieved a colour that I was happy with I slightly adjusted the contrast to enhance certain darker features.

Once I had developed my somewhat 'sepia' design I then worked back into my edit and added colour in some places that I felt would benefit from it, this included the colour, chains, eyes, nose and wrinkles. To achieve a fitting colour I used the paint brush tool and selected a smoother edged brush, I then changed the opacity to 60% and chose a colour on the colour wheel, I then zoomed in at 400% and worked closely with the imaged to make sure that I achieved a good quality finish.