Photoshopping

These photo's show the stages I went through whilst using the computer programme Photoshop to edit the photo's I had taken to produce my poster.

After taking multiple pictures of my mise-en-scene prop, the mask, getting a variety of shots to show different angles of the mask, moving the mask from a light surrounding to a dark surrounding and working out the best position to get an effective shadow across the surface, I narrowed them down to a few photos to which I began editing.

Firstly I edited the background to be completely black, the background of the picture was of a dark carpet (as I placed the mask on the floor to gain a completely precise picture). To do so I used a selective cropping tool, to go precisely go along the outline of the mask, this was easily done as the contrast between the colours of the background (black carpet) and the object in the foreground (the mack) ranged greatly, this difference was automatically recognised by the programme. Selecting the areas that weren't needed, were then deleted, to leave me with a full black background surrounding the image.