Editing Photos

To edit the pictures for our ancillary products we used both ‘Adobe PhotoShop CS4’ and ‘Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9’. There were many tools on both of these pieces of software that we found useful to create the illusions and messages that we wanted for our ancillary products.

‘Adobe PhotoShop CS4’ was very useful in changing the brightness and colour of the photos. For example for our main photo we adjusted the background colour to make the main character stand out in the foreground. As well as this we used a blue colouring on the main characters jacket to make it stand out more as the theme of our film as blue signifies sadness. This was very easy to do on PhotoShop. However when using PhotoShop we had the problem of only being able to click undo once which meant that we then had to start from the beginning as the tool that let you put a certain section back to its original form sometimes did not work.

As most of the members of our group our familiar with ‘Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9’ it was very easy to edit the photos in. we mainly used this software to blend photos together for our film website and to blend the images into the background of out film website. We felt that by doing this it looked a lot neater and a lot less block. Other features that we used on this software was the background eraser tool which made it very easy to erase the background of photos and logos for example we were able to copy the ‘Empire’ Logo of an existing magazine and cut out its background using the background eraser tool with great ease, this made it a lot easier to make our DVD cover, poster and magazine front cover.

In both programmes it was easy to take sections from the photos that we most liked by using the crop tool and the selection tool. We felt that by using both of these programmes we could capture the effect that we wanted making certain signifiers stand out to the audience.