After showing my target audience the two images I had taken for my front cover, the final consensus was that the medium close-up was the preferred photo so I decided to take this advice and use it. As I stated in my previous blog, I was unable to take my images in-studio therefore the only white wall I had available also consisted of a door. Due to the height and broadness of my model, I couldn't fit him exactly on the walled area so had to position him so that he overlapped the door frame. This looks rather unprofessional so I decided to edit it using Photoshop. Here is the manipulated image:
To the left is the photo of Clayton that I shall be using on my front cover. I decided to completely remove the background as I would like to create a grey gradient and place it behind him. I managed to remove the background by using the magnetic lasso tool and carefully tracing around Clayton before inverting the process and deleting the background. Additionally, as you can tell, Clayton's hair is spiky and voluminous so I created a mask to neatly go around the individual strands of hair and make it as realistic as possible.
As well as removing the background, I also used the blemish tool to erase a few small imperfections. Once I was happy with the photo, I used the essentials bar (shown above) to alter the brightness, exposure, contrast, saturation and hue. By doing this, I had complete control on what his finished complexion would look like and made the image look more professional.
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