Thursday, 17 November 2011


This is my practice at editing a picture using photoshop, i chose to edit a photo of simon neil who is the singer of the band i am creating a music video for i also put an eagle into the background of the picture as it is one of the key lyrics of the song that i am doing.

We started off by copying the image that we wanted by selecting the rest of the picture with the lasso tool, and the magnetic lasso tool, we then clicked inverse to select the image we wanted. We chose feathered the image so that the image would not be as harsh. We copied it into another canvas and zoomed in and removed any traces of the background from the original that remained. We repeated the process with the image inserted in the background and put it into the canvas, selecting send to back.


This picture was my attempt to combine my image into a street like I plan to do for my final digipak cover. However this did not work as the edge of the figure is missing and looks bad like he has been placed into the image.


This is my next attempt at inserting figures into a high-street scene, still using photoshop, but this time I'm using a simpler figure which also shows it's entire body.




1 comment:

  1. This is all useful evidence Matthew. I would, however, like to see you editing this blog post and including some detail about the actual techniques that you have Ben using in Photoshop in order to achieve the effects in these images. This then needs to be linked in to what you hope to be able to achieve for your ancillary tasks.

    You are a student who has the potential to achieve close to full marks for the 20 per cent of the coursework grade that is allocated to the ancillary tasks. This will be a vital step towards achieving or exceeding your target grade.

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