Technical Photo shop lesson 1 &2 - Final image of NARS edited

Technical Editing Lesson 1 & 2 Petes Lesson-

I had recently done my beauty shoot for my Brand image 'NARS', so in Petes lesson I learnt to edit my images. He broke each step down for me, I told him what I wanted to achieve e.g. smoothen out the skin, remove blemishes, small adjustments

First of all I went through the hundreds of images I had took previously and minused in down to a few images; this is when I asked peers in my class to tell me which one they preferred, because I like to see what others like and this will help with choosing the best image. 

Here is the image that I chose below unedited, as there was a few adjustments I needed to make in order for me to be satisfied and happy with my final image.

What I did and how I did it on photo shop during my lesson with Pete...

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Inline Citations: 

• (Blanshard et al., 2015)
 

Pete spoke about creating a new layer when you are about to make changes on photo shop so you can see what changes you have made and if you need to undo a mistake, it is easily done by having that later there.Pete helped me very much this lesson and I was very grateful. I then wanted to smoothen out the skin and remove small blemishes, moles etc. So by doing this i clicked on the:

Spot healer, changed my brush size to suit to area that I was editing and to smooth out any areas of concern.

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Inline Citations: 

• (TUTORIALS, 2011)
 

I also wanted to remove her bra strap as this didn't like right at all, so therefore I used the 'Stamp' button, pressed the Ctrl Alt to capture the skin tone near the strap and made the brush big enough to enable me to drag it across the black strap to remove this. 

I also did this with stray hairs on her head as I wanted to keep her hair sleek yet slightly uneven in order to see the different textures, so I didn't want it to be absolutely perfect.

Here are both before and after images of my brand image NARS.

Removed faint lines, small blemishes, tidied up hairs, changed to balance, contrast and exposure of the photo. I also made the eyes a brighter blue colour with shine in order to make them stand out in the image and removed the bra strap. 

                                  

Here is the edited version with slight differences to tidy up the skin and uneven tones, to remove the strap and slight stray hairs.

I found it challenging but I like to be challenged and once I learn it, it will stick with me for the future for other projects to come. 

I was overall very happy with the makeup and hair look and I feel I really captured the look I was after with my model, I feel she was perfect for my brand and I enjoyed the process to get there.

Here is my after photo shop image with all these adjustments made, there could of been a few more things I could of changed or removed, but I still don't feel overally confident with going to far with photo shop, this is definitely working progress and I enjoyed the photo shop lessons.

                                 

My final image of my shot for NARS campaign- Brand image 

Model: Ella Christenson 

Makeup Artist: Natalie Allana Hodgkins

I really love the use of the background colour Which is very popular with NARS campaigns along with the makeup style which is very bold, outrageous but however, glowy, dewy skin where I highlighted with dabbing baby oil over the top to produce that wonderful glowy skin. 

If I did this again, I would become more confident with using photo shop and youtubed more tutorials, but I didn't want to edit to much of my image and I loved the overall colour use in the makeup and the background along with the product image.