I haven't properly used Photoshop in about three years (since I prefer to use adobe lightroom for my images as it's simple and quick and made for photographers and not graphic designers.) So using Photoshop for this project is quite daunting as well as exciting.
I thought I'd take my old A level teachers advice from years ago and follow some relevant tutorials on making magazine covers and Photoshopping people.
I followed this tutorial -
http://www.tutorialstraining.com/cstutorials/advertisingdesign/magazine/twistrcodedtutorial.htm
I found it very helpful as well as using relevant techniques to edit the look of smoother skin, shinier hair, bigger eyes etc. that are all used in magazines.
After three hours of perfecting this image as well as adding the red banners I gave up and went to bed. I found it frustrating not knowing what I was doing as well as not having a clear idea of what I wanted it to look like.
I vowed that I'd get up the next morning and finish the job, no matter how frustrating or how long it took me.
And this is the final outcome of that day. I'll blog about it on it's own in the next post.
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