With all my planning done and my pictures taken I began work on my finished piece.


1) I opened the image in Adobe Photoshop.


2) I cropped the image to make it a better format for a magazine.


3) I used the select colour tool and selected the background of the image.


4) I adjusted the fuzziness.


5) I used the selective colour tool to adjust the colour by darkening and tinting the background.


6) I used the hue/saturation tool to adjust background colours further.


7) I selected the unwanted parts on the right side of the image and feathered it.


8) I then copy and pasted this part of the image to create another layer.


9) I darkened this layer using the levels and selective colour tools.


10) I flattened the layers.


11) I selected the record area and used the shadow/ highlight tool to lift the shadows.


12) I then desaturated it slightly with the hue/saturation tool.


13) I selected the face and feathered it, then used the sharpen tool.


14) I then added the text to the image.


15) I edited the fonts.


16) I edited the colours.


17) I used the stroke tool to add borders.


18) I used the bevel & emboss tool to give it a textured look.


19) I rasterized the title type to make it a picture layer.


20) I selected part of the title that covered the model and deleted it.


21) I then added the bar code.

Which created this: