Editing picture

We have edited Picture number 1 with the Photoshop programme, because is the one we know about and we have learn how to use it in the past two years here in University.

We have decided to blur some parts of the face that appears in the picture, doing this we’ve eliminated the wrinkles and the face will seems softer. The photo is pixelated so it was more difficult, because if we unfocused one part the pixel next to it was affected, but with the enlargement of the image and the graduation of the brush we have solved the problem. We can see this changes in picture number 2.

In the third picture we can see how we’ve changed de colour of her lips, so that way we give the picture more brightness. We have chosen a light colour because other colours, like red, would be too hard for the picture and they would be confused with other colours of the clothes and the background. In this case we have coloured first the top part of the lips because we had to trace the interior part of the mouth and be careful with the teeth’s to avoid that they got coloured. We have spent some time doing this because of its complexity; also we have illuminated the image so it wasn’t so dark.

Finally we have added a soft pink colour to the cheeks so that they stand out. It’s been hard to find the colours that fit into the image, because the pixels didn’t let us select a particular area, if we tried to fixed the right part of the face there was a pixel that had a part of face and of hair so if you changed it the hair changed also and with the right part we had the same problem with the eye. We have decided to reduce the colour of the cheeks, so that way we could stand out the lips and the eyes and leave in a second place the cheeks. We can se how the final photo is like (4) and compare it to the original (1).

Sheila Ribot Escribano & Marta Prat Alesanco