Experimenting with Photoshop

As the aim of this project is to construct an effective magazine, it was obvious that I was was going to need to utilise my dexterity within the field of digital designing. As a professional amateur Photoshop user, I knew I needed to hone my proficiency in order to conceive the best possible magazine. To achieve a greater level of ability with Photoshop, I decided to perform an experiment on the design software. I ended up venturing down the path of applying digital make up to a female face.

Below is a before and after image of the test. (Note: This is only halfway through the entire process)

As you can see, I simply made the face smoother and removed the wrinkles and any other lines that were visible. I did this by using the brush tool and activating the quick mask tool to highlight and paint over the areas of the face that were rough and had wrinkles or lines. Once I had used the brush to highlight these aspects, I deactivated the quick mask tool which then turned the paint into a selection. I then had to invert the selection to allow the filters I were going to apply would only target the face. Once the selection was inverted, I used the Gaussian Blur filter to make the face look smoother. This was one of the most difficult actions during this procedure as it was imperative that the selection was not blurred too much or too little.

The image below is the end result of the experiment.