Image manipulation

Image manipulation:

Explanation

Manipulating an image is basically perfecting a picture that you have taken using different workshops like photo shop or picasa.
When using these shops it allows you to do things like crop images, take out any blemishes that may be obscuring the image or add things in that will help to contribute to the quality of the picture.

Image 1:
As you can see by the image below there are a few things that we need to remove to make the image presentable enough to publish in a magazine. Such things include:


Manipulation 1:
A lot of the editing for this picture would be in the background, things like the plug socket, the wooden panel and the speaker wire that is at the bottom and side of the picture needs to be taken out.
I think that the background and the carpet are a good contrast in colour, the way that I am going to remove the things that I just mentioned are in a paint document which is a tool that is automatically installed on the computer. It will allow me to paint in the background minus the objects that I do not want but still keeping the carpet.
By using the pick a colour tool I can make sure that I get the roughly same colour background.
When the colour has been selected you have to use the brush to fill in the background.



Manipulation 2:
The next step for this image is to crop it because as it is there is a lot of the background space on show. It is normally good to have some background space on show if you are using that picture as a front cover picture as you can then write around it. But for this picture it would be better to use inside of a magazine rather then on the front.
Cropping an image means to shorten it down and cut of some the parts that you no longer want, for example in this picture it is the background.



Manipulation 3:
The final manipulation that I am going to do is mainly focusing on the minor details. Around my neck there is a necklace and the wire from the headphones is cutting across me.
I am going to remove these by going on picasa, which is a workshop that helps with the manipulation of images. On this document I am going to use a retouching brush which will blend the necklace and the wire in with the background, by using this it will make the necklace and the wire the same colour as my skin, therefore meaning that it will not be noticeable.



My final image 1:



Image 2:


Manipulation 1:
This image is very much like the previous image, there is not a lot that needs to be retuned on it.
As with the previous image the background will need to be changed as it also has the plug socket and the wooden panelling in it.

Manipulation 2:
Using picasa I have been able to remove the wire from the headphones and the necklace.
Also like the previous image I have used a retouching brush to remove the wire and the necklace. By removing the wire from the image it gives a more spacious feel and provides less distractions.

Manipulation 3:
The final manipulation that I am going to do is the cropping of my image.

My final image 2:



Image 3:


Manipulation 1:
As with the previous pictures the background has to be altered to the same colour as the background because once again there is the panelling. I will do this again in paint using the colour picker tool and the painting brush.

Manipulation 2:
In this image there is red eye. To remove this there is a device on picasa that is called red eye removal. This takes out all or any red eye that may be in the picture.
After clicking on the red eye removal it should automatically remove it, but if not it allows you to remove any that it hasn’t using a box. Removing the red eye from my picture is important because it makes them look more professional.



Even though in this image there are a lot of extra props on the floor I have decided to keep these in it as it goes with the theme of a band.

Manipulation 3:
These images like the others need to be cropped. This one has to be cropped at the right hand side because there is a lot of free space.

My final image 3:



Image 4:


Manipulation 1:
This also has red eye, so like the previous, by using picasa I can remove this.

Manipulation 2:
In this image you can see my necklace. As I have removed it from the other pictures I have to remove it from this one. But also it doesn’t really go with what I am wearing and the band theme.

Manipulation 3:
The final manipulation is the cropping of the image again but this time at the top of the picture.

My final image 4: