Final Images for School Magazine Edits using Photoshop

From choosing my final better images from my photo shoot, I have edited the four photographs below and have included the original photo's above the edited versions so that the difference and changes I have made can be seen clearly.

You can see from the two images above (the top being the original) that I have mad subtle changes that just give the photograph more vibrancy and colour saturation. I  pumped up the brightness and contrast to make the photo clearer. You will also be able to see in the original image that in the bottom left hand corner there is a bonnet of a car sticking out and red traffic cones just off the centre of the photo. I thought that it would look much better with this removed so the focus was more on the school and so I used the clone stamp tool to take them right out of the photograph to give the appearance that they weren't there to begin with. This is the photograph I will use for the front cover of my school magazine as I feel that it captures the traditional aspect/values which was part of my aim for the target audience of parents.

This image also had very minimal editing as all I did was increase the brightness and contrast and added a tiny but of Gaussian blur to the background to make sure that the main focus was on the hand and paper in the foreground. The shallow focus on this photograph is the component that I am most please about and why I chose I have chosen to use it as one of the photo's on my contents page.

With this photograph I first boosted up the contrast and brightness to clear up the image slightly as it was quite shadowed in the original photograph. I then used the clone stamp tool to remove the dark stains on the mat underneath the Bunsen burner to clean it up a little and then I noticed that there was a random bag in the backdrop, on the table. The bag was a bit trickier to remove than the dark patches on the mat but I managed it in the end. The final edit I made was cropping the image to put the focus on the female student, as the male student in the background was pulling a strange expression and he was shadowed and so I though it would be much better without this part in the photo.

This was the final photograph I edited and again, not much was changed here. Although the editing is subtle, the adjustments make the image look a lot better. Like a lot of my photo's, I enhanced the brightness and contrast and then finally removed the strange 'happy birthday' banner and clock from the background using the clone stamp tool.