Music Magazine Edited Photos

Below is the before and after versions of my photo that I used for my front cover which shows the editing process used to adjust and edit the photo for the magazine's purposes. The clearest edit that I have made would the cropping of the image as you can see below that the sides of the image have been cropped by using the crop tool. This toll allowed me to edit the image so that only the featured artist was in the frame and that the frame was the correct size (210mm x 297mm) for a front cover. The next alteration that I made was the lighting because the artist's face slightly blended with the background because of the brightness of the image so by adding a lighting filter and lowering the vibrancy of the image, the brightness was lowered ever so slightly but just enough so that the face of the artist did not blend as much with the background. Those were the biggest improvements to the image. The next three are smaller and touch ups to improve the image.
The shoe on the right foot propped on the left foot had its leather on the side pealing off, by using the blur tool to blend the colour of the shoe to the section of the shoe were the image was peeled, the peeled section looked as if it hadn't. The second touch up was that there was a single white string hanging of the collar of the model so by using the blur tool once more, the single white string was removed from the frame. The final touch up that I did was concerning the mode's face, he had very cheeks due to the unexpected cold temperature outside on the day of the photo shoot. By using a colouring tool with the re-asterising tool, the red cheeks were faded and not as red as before which was good.