Photo editing

I chose to edit my photos that I had taken as I would prefer them to have plain white backgrounds, instead of the original background, this is because it improves the appearance of the pictures and also adds the effect of the girl band being in a photo shoot, with a white backdrop. I edited the photos in Adobe Photoshop.

I did this by using the magnetic lasso tool to draw round each main character in the picture, then selected inverse, to allow me to colour in the background white rather then colouring in the drawn around image. I coloured the backgrounds all white, I chose white because the background of my magazine, including the front cover, contents page and the double page spread will be all white, therefore I thought that it would look more appealing if it was white rather than black or any other coloured background so I don't have a 'box like' image.

I also then changed the red eye in all pictures, by adding blue colour to the eyes, I did this simply by using the brush tool.

Below is a photo before I started editing;

And below is during editing, changing the original background into a white background and before I removed the red eye;

And below is a finished edit of one of the photos, with a white background and blue eyes rather than red;