One of the topics for discussion on the show, was the use of photoshop and how people reacted to it. As part of the production team, we decided to include a segment during the debate where each of the panelists was to have a picture of themselves photoshopped to either make them look good or take something away from them that would get them shocked or angry. Ruby and I were chosen to be in charge of the photoshop while some on the promo or VT team to take the pictures. The first issue there was that it wasn't clear who was in charge of the pictures and getting the people to the studio to actually get their pictures taken. With that said, only Rory and Beth got a picture taken as it was unorganised properly and Jordan wasn't told to go. Ruby and I decided to split the job and she would do Beth and I was to do Rory.
It was quite a fun task as I had removed spots and make skin look more soft before, but never actually got to remove tattoos. It was quite hard at the beginning as the picture was very out of focus as I mentioned on my report. This was the original picture
The first thing I did was to raise the brightness and saturation of it to give it more light and a bit more colour as the quality of the picture was very poor. The other bit was to remove the tattoos. For that I watched a couple of videos that showed a bit of how to remove tattoos and work with body shape. This one here was probably the most useful video. It showed me how to use the patch tool, which ended up being my best friend when it came down to it.
This other video was a bit longer than the other but it shows you how to retouch someone with a bit of a better light, shape the body, make them look more soft. I struggled using a lot of features from that video and things i knew how to do already because of how the picture is out of focus, but I think that in the end I did the best job I could do with what I was given.
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