With regards to the print products I was primarily responsible for editing the magazine cover. For this, I wanted to focus the image in on the artist and create a slightly blurred background to create a dimension between the subject and background. This pushed the artist forward and in the focus of the image. To do this, I created my own gradient filter and the process can be seen bellow. This involved separating the artist from the background and then applying the filter to the back image. By creating a gradient filter you can blur the gradient and therefore make the images on the opposite of the gradient appear closer to the camera lens. Following the application of the filter I changed the contrast, saturation and colour balance of the image, experimenting with shadows, mid tones and highlights.
Here's how I blurred the background using a gradient filter...
The video above is a YouTube video that I found. I used it to learn how to create and apply a gradient focus filter to my image.
The video above demonstrates how I applied the filter and edited the colour balance, contrast and saturation of the image. This is only a short portion of the editing process that carried across a number of days.
