Editing Images

For my ancillary texts I have edited several images so that they would be suitable to use on both my digipak and for my website. When researching into various indie folk artists I have noticed that the images focus mainly on the artists expressions and faces for this reason I have chosen from my photoshoot images that focus mainly on the face rather then full body shots.
For my website images, I wanted a simplistic looking which is a typical convention of indie folk artists. Because I was creating my ancillary texts at home I didnt infact have access to Photoshop so I used the free editing software 'GIMP' to edit my images whilst at home.


Having chosen what images I wanted to edited I opened up on the GIMP programme, similarly to Photoshop, the programme used similar tools and icons that mainly compelted the same tasks. For example I was still able to delete sections of my image I did not like but also edit using the magic wand tool and used the different layers effectively.

I decided that I wanted my artists hair colour to contrast with the background she was placed against. I did this by choosing a subtle red colour from the paint tool. After this i chose what size brush I wanted and where I would 'colour' her hair.

After using the paint brush I realised I would have to change the opacity from 100% to ensure that my artists hair wasnt directly the bright red colour. After changing the opacity to 15.5% I used the paint brush to change the colour of my artists hair. I thought this was quite effective as her hair contrasted with the brown dark background. I felt that by doing this it gave a 'edge' to my artist and made my artist look less conventional.

After erasing blemishes and marks on my artists face with the 'smudge' tool I when to the levels tool and started to change the brightness and saturation of my image. Although I didnt exactly know what I wanted the images to look like I wanted them to look older then what they actually where.

After changing different levels of the image, I decided I was quite happy with the way the image looked as it made my artist look deep in thought. I also think the image has a sort of haunting feel to the image and that the artist appears quite alone.

After changing the levels of the image I realised that as I was changing my artist hair colour I accidentally used the paint brush on her face aswell. So to erase this from the image I used the 'clone' tool to copy parts of my artists face and cover over where I accidentally painted her face.