Band image manipulation
- 1. BAND IMAGE MANIPULATION The image above is the main image that I used for my front cover of my finished media product. The image is of the featured artist called Amelia Cranstoun. As you can see my final image that I have use on my front cover is a lot different to the raw image which I took. I changed the image in order to increase the quality of my image and to make it much more eye catching. I felt that the raw image which I took was abit too dark considering most other cover magazines have high key images. I felt it would also attract the attention of the readers if the image on the front cover looked better. I increased the brightness of my image as well as zooming and cropping it. I also manipulated the image to remove any spots or blemishes on my model. Once I did this, I wanted to give the image more depth to make it stand out more as it is my cover image. to achieve this I increased the contrast of the image to emphasise its background shadows, etc… increasing the contrast and brightness have my cover page image a more professional look and made certain elements of the image stand out more, succh as the lips (which I also edited and made them more red.i also increased the saturation and edited the hue slightly. I like the way I made her lips more red as they stand out and now match my colourscheme. As I cropped and resized the image to make it more suitable to be used on the cover, as you can see from my images at the top of my page, my model was quite distant away from the camera.
- 2. In terms of other band and artist images In which I analysed I feel I drew most of my insperation from this image of kesha, she is also on the cover of a vibe magazine which I looked at. This image is similar to mine in the sense of the length of the body which is shown in the image, a similar pale back ground has also been used, this occurs to keep the main focus on the actual models and artists themselves. Kesha also sings a similar genre to what is in my magazine, as it’s a pop/RnB and has the posibilty to also be an indie mag. Kesha is a pop singer. The costume shes wearing is very casual, as if my models outfit,I think this is necessary in order to address my target audience correctly, my model is fully clothed without her skin showing.