Drafting and planning

After I looked more closely at my images from my first draft, I noticed that from using my schools drama studio, there are actually uneven tones of black from the walls shining through in the images.

Therefore, to stray away from this problem I used the software Paint.Net to smooth out the background behind my model.

I started off by importing the picture of the model, selecting her, smoothing out the edges, then playing with the different contrasts around her. I did this using the select tool, the magic wand and then the different effects. By working in different layers, I found it much easier to come to the final result. It was an efficient way to edit the image.

These are the different steps:

I repeated the same process for the image for the double page spread.

You can now see that with both the front page and double page spread the images look a lot smoother. This makes them look more professional and real images you'd see in a magazine.