The document describes the post-processing steps taken to edit a photographic image. It involves adjusting exposure, curves, duplicating layers, erasing parts of the image, adding blur to deepen depth of field, boosting vibrance of certain colors, adjusting brightness and contrast, creating a vignette, adding glow effects, separately editing the jacket, merging layers, precisely cutting out and feathering the subject, adding lens blur, fixing parts of the background wall, adding a warming filter, and reintroducing grain. The final step was slightly brightening the color of the model's eyes.
The document describes the post-processing steps taken to edit a photographic image. It involves adjusting exposure, curves, duplicating layers, erasing parts of the image, adding blur to deepen depth of field, boosting vibrance of certain colors, adjusting brightness and contrast, creating a vignette, adding glow effects, separately editing the jacket, merging layers, precisely cutting out and feathering the subject, adding lens blur, fixing parts of the background wall, adding a warming filter, and reintroducing grain. The final step was slightly brightening the color of the model's eyes.
The document describes the post-processing steps taken to edit a photographic image. It involves adjusting exposure, curves, duplicating layers, erasing parts of the image, adding blur to deepen depth of field, boosting vibrance of certain colors, adjusting brightness and contrast, creating a vignette, adding glow effects, separately editing the jacket, merging layers, precisely cutting out and feathering the subject, adding lens blur, fixing parts of the background wall, adding a warming filter, and reintroducing grain. The final step was slightly brightening the color of the model's eyes.
Here I resized the image to properly fit the canvas the way I wanted it to
I Began by adjusting the exposure to my liking
I then moved on to adjusting the curves to give it a certain look.
Here I duplicated the layer and set it to screen so I could see where I was erasing. (the darker parts are the parts being erased)
Here ive completely erased him from the backdrop. The use of 2 layers to do this was for easy separation. I then set the layer back to normal and added some blur to enhance the DOF effect.
Ive added vibrance in order to make the blues stand out more than other colours. Ive also lowered the overall saturation to compensate for the vibrance boost.
I then adjusted the brightness and contrast on the layer of the wall in order to give it more depth. I then duplicated the 2 layers so that I could merge them and still have backups. I did this in order to have easy management, and adjust the 2 layers easily by merging them to 1.
I used the gradient tool to create a vignette.
I then made a new layer, and drew an orange glow onto it. I made the layer a colour dodge layer
here I have cut out the jacket part of the model so that I could separately adjust the colors. Here I set the layer style on it to linear burn Here ive added some more vibrance and saturation to the jacket.
I then merged the jacket onto the main layer.
Here ive precisely cut out and feathered the edges in order to separate the model from the background. Here ive added abit of lensblur in order to enhance the effect of the DOF. Ive also added this corner to the bottom right side of the image in order to fix the piece missing from the wall.
Here ive added a warming filter. Ive purposely added back some grain to the image.
Here ive again separated the model from the background. This is so I can overlay it onto the background with enhanced DOF to create a sharper and more uniformed color.
Here is the final image; I have slightly brightened the colour of the eyes on the model.