The document discusses experiments with photo editing tools in Photoshop. It explores adjusting contrast, brightness, curves, saturation, vibrance, threshold, cropping, lens flare, film grain, rough pastels, and stamp effects. The goal is to enhance photos for a music video by making them darker, more captivating, scary, and relate to the confusing music. Decreasing saturation and vibrance created a darker effect without losing brightness. Narrowing the face enhanced the scream. Lens flare on the eyes and rough pastels effects made the images more disturbing.

1. PLANNING FOR ANCILLARY
FRONT COVER
EXPLORING PHOTO EDITING
PHOTOSHOP

2. Whenever I use photoshop I change the contrast and brightness
because I think it is an effective tool and makes certain features
stand out.
Here I experimented on the vibrance and saturation. I like the
result of decreasing both effects as it makes the image darker and
more captivating...I think this is good as it also gives of a scary vibe
which is what I am aiming for.
Here I experimented on curves to see the effect. I found out
that by increasing the curve the image became brighter and
by decreasing the curve the brightness dimmed.

3. Here I experimented on
the threshold
level...changing from 1 to
218 seeing the effect.
Photo on the right (218) is
much more distorted and
rough, suiting the music
more...photo on the left
(1) is much more smooth
and soft.
I cropped the photo to just the
face and then imported it onto
a 10cm by 10cm black canvas
on fireworks.

4. Here I have experimented with the curves of the image
and I like the musky sort of effect it has created by
decreasing the curve.
By decreasing the saturation and vibrance I
have made the image a lot darker without
decreasing the brightness...This is effective
and relates to the music and brand.
By using the pinch effect
on photoshop I am able to
alternate the narrowness
and wideness of the
face...by narrowing the
image I am enhancing
the scream
By adding a lens flare to each eye I have
created a much more scary looking image. I
believe this is really effective.

5. FILM GRAIN EFFECTS ON ARTISTIC OPTION
This is n effective device to enhance the colour of the image.
ROUGH PASTELS EFFECT ON ARTISTIC
OPTIONS
I have used this effect in a alot of my photo edits....I think it is a
simple and effective device which creates a distorted
effect which connects to the brand.
STAMP EFFECT ON SKETCH
OPTIONS
I love the distorted effect that his creates.
It enhances the sort of mental illness
aspect of my music video and relates to the
confusion of the music.

6. I did the same thing for both of these photos:
First I cropped the image on fireworks, saved
it as a JPEG and then imported it onto
photoshop. I changed the vibrance and
saturation creating the same effect as the
others.
Finished image
Looking at the artistic effects I thought the
Rough pastels effect was most effective.

7. PHOTOS TO CHOOSE FROM FOR FRONT COVER