AS Media Coursework Main Task - Photo Editing

To make the quality of my magazine even higher, I decided to photo edit some of my band photographs using Abdobe Photoshop. I felt that by editing some photographs e.g. making some coloured photographs black and white, I would be helping to attract my target audience and that the 'impression' my image gave off would be improved.

For the double page spread, I decided to edit the band member images to black and white, so that the indie feeling off my band would be given off (black and white photographs are commonly used in other indie magazines such as Kerrang and Mojo, so by doing this, I would be actively helping my magazine so achieve it's target audience. As you can see from the double page spread I have included, the individual band member images are black and white.

Using Abdobe photoshop I am going to show you an example of how I achieved this.

First of all, I opened the photo that I wanted to edit in Photoshop.

After uploading the photo that I wanted to edit, I clicked on Images > Adjustments > Desaturate (which turns the image into Black and White).




As you can see, the image that I uploaded is now in Black and White.





After changing the image to Black and White, I thought that the contrast of the image wasn't that strong, so I decided to change this. I went to Images > Adjustments > Auto Contrast (which automatically changes the contrast to make the image more contrasted).

Here is my final band member image, I achieved this by turning it Black and White and then editing the contrast to achieve the best possible result.