EDITING

I looked on YouTube to try and find any relevant and useful tutorial videos that could help me achieve a ghost like effect.

Once I found a video I felt would get me the right effect, I uploaded my image on to Photoshop and

started to get to work…

First I adjusted the brightness/contrast to get a darker image and to enhance the shadowing on Tammy’s (girl

in image) face.

Then I zoomed in and cropped the image till I was satisfied with the way it looked.

I then added a layer mask to the image and went onto the ‘quick selection’ tool and selected around the face, so I could get rid of the bits of the photo I didn’t want, Once I had all of these bits selected, I Clicked on ‘fill black’ and was rid of the selected parts. I duplicated the layer, and desaturated the

image, making it black and white.

Then duplicated the layer again and added ‘motion blur’, making the image seem quite

ghost like. I then added a layer mask, chose a brush and changed the hardness to 0 and of a

low opacity, so that I could pick out smaller details; making them stand out more. I then

merged all the layers.

I clicked onto ‘filters’ and then ‘distort’ and chose ‘difuse glow’.

After seeing the image, all edited and finished, I still wasn’t sure it quite the effect I was going

for. So I decided to look for another…

ANOTHER IDEA!-INSPIRATION. I found a drawn/cartoon image of a woman and half of her face had been formed into a werewolf face. As soon

as I saw this picture, it instantly reminded me of my groups film/trailer idea. So I decided to try and recreate it.

First I opened the picture of Tammy and repeated the first few steps from my previous idea, where I used the ‘quick

selection’ tool and got rid of the background.

I then added a new layer and added a skull picture I found on the internet

and placed it on top of Tammy’s photo.

I then reduced the transparency of the skull image and made it the same size of Tammy’s

face and moved it around till it managed to fit to the size on Tammy’s face.

I was extremely happy with the results and the way this image

looked. I also looked back at my first edited image, and decided I actually do like the outcome of

that as well, and I am considering using it for my film poster.

First finished edit: Second finished edit:

Other images I edited!(changing from colour to black &

white)