Post Production - Screen Shots

Screen Shots

Taking the dust away on coffin top and edges

Spot healing tool

Before and after shot

Both edges and top complete

With the first three screen shots its an example of how we created layers and masks to hide the dust and dirt that can be seen on the top of the coffin as well as the sides, by using the spot healing brush. However me and Nikita noticed that the edges looked quite Magenta, so we then created another layer and make to change the luminosity of the edges as you can see in the screen shot below:

Changing luminosity

Changing the Arch Brightness

Changing the size of the tool

Noticeable difference in light change on arch

Myself and Nikita struggled with the post production as neither of us had had any experience when using photoshop. However i feel i have learnt a lot during the process of editing this image. We originally wanted to change the least amount possible to he image, however once printing began we came across more editing needs.

For example, the candle all seemed to fade away and look as if they were not lit so we had to create another layer and curve the brightness and contrast to increase the highlights, (as shown in below print screens). We also used the same process to laminate the red into the apple as we felt the white was too overpowering. We also worked on the shadow of her chest, to try and bring the shadow forward so the image wasn't as flat. The strands of hair on her chest were also removed as well as the hair on the left side of her face lightened.

Below are the print screens of the process:

Editing curve to change colour of candles

Notice the dark harsh shadow and the black strands of hair

Editing the shadow and using the tools to discard the hair

Also changing the skin tone to enhance facial skin tone -
Notice Shadow on chest is softer and hair strands gone

Using curves to edit the apple and its colours 

Looking closely at the bent leg, you can see the lines in the tights on the knee which looks strange. Going back to the original file we tried editing it in focus but sadly it didn't make any difference, but at least we tried and know for future reference. Below are the screen shots:

Using focus to edit our original file

As you can see the line sin the tights on the knee, changing the 'Moire' made no difference.

Customise proof condition

Document Profile 

Printing

Flattening the image

Image size and dimensions

Contact sheet

Image Rotation

Layer properties - Curves

Beginning of Contact sheet

Hidden layers

Our first strip

Saving once both strips are complete

Print settings and preview

Comparison

Lighting changed curves back

Printing properties

Printing properties

These print screens are an example of our post production. I feel the entire post production was quite difficult, i think in the long run this will benefit my work and in time i will be able to use photoshop properly. It is mainly because photoshop is new to me that it proved hard to use, however i am happy that we took the time to adjust parts of the image as we have ended up with a better photo.