Main Task

Now that I have decided on the image that I wanted to use I roughly edited it in different ways so that I could get a better idea of what looks better so that I could edit it properly later.

The first edit that I made was changing the colour of her nails. I done this as I thought it would look more professional and like a real photo shoot if they were coloured as you don’t see many celebrities that don’t have nice nails as they care so much about their appearance;

From looking at this edit I was indecisive on what image I preferred I thought they both looked equally affective, although I think the red nails kind of take the attention of the face I also think that it completes the photo so I am going to keep the red nails now for my front cover image.

The second edit that I made to the photo was flipping it the other way round as I weren’t sure on which way would look better;

I then realised that the original way is better for a magazine cover as I had to remember that the most important part of the magazine cover is the first third as that is what people see first when it is on the shelf in the shops. If I stuck to the original picture the first third would have an eye which will be effective as it will catch the readers eye, whereas if I was to use the flipped version they would see a hand which wouldn’t attract them to it at all. I have created an illustration on paint to explain what is meant by the most important third;

I then edited the background to see if the white background would make the image stand out more;

 

From looking at this edit I have decided that I prefer the original grey background as the colours work better together.