Experimenting with Adobe Photoshop

Experimenting with Adobe Photoshop

I chose a picture from an copyright free website, and then transferred it to photoshop. The photograph in the top left hand corner is the original; I first adapted the brightness and contrast of the photo, as you can see in the middle picture. I chose to make the background darker using the contrast, and therefore the flowers stand out more, and are the main focus of the photo. Next, I chose to experiement with gradient, again trying to make the flowers the most important part of the focus. I placed the dark area of gradient in the left corner, as you can see in the bottom left picture, because it had nothing but a green background in it, and this way, the foreground of the flowers is more prominent. Also, this makes good use of the rule of thirds, because it ensures that the audience look at the flowers on the vertical lines. Next, I chose to try and change the colour of each individual flower bud, and this would give it a contemporary modern look to engage with younger audiences. This was challenging, but we managed to draw around each flower shape and then change the fill of each flower colour, but also so it remained slightly transparent to allow us to see the natural lines of the flower. Next, in order to make the picture look like it was for a perfume advert, I managed to copy a cut out layer of a perfume bottle onto the image. This I found quite difficult, because I didn't really understand how to do it.