This was my starting photo for my magazine cover copy. Though the pose was pretty accurate, it was difficult to get the right lighting, so I had to use photoshop to add faux lighting and do some colour correction.
I stared off by using the burn tool to really exaggerate the highlights on her skin. It was then that I noticed that her hand came out too far, so I resized forarm to make it more accurate to the cover I was copying.
On another layer, I then altered the colour of her hair using a hue and saturation panel. I also decided to exaggerate her makeup and make her eyes appear bigger.
By using different layer settings (such as overlay and transparency alteration) I was able to create a relatively believable edit.
After comparing the image to the original, I saw that there was too much contrast in the skin tones, so I decided to mute the tones by highlighting the shadows on an overlay layer, counter balancing the contrast.
This is my final photo after editing, and is the one I will be using on the cover of my magazine copy. Over all I am pretty happy with the outcome, however next time I will be sure to use better lighting as I feel that all the editing has given the picture an unnatural feeling.
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