In this weeks lab we worked on photo editing. We learned about colour correction, the rule of thirds and the content aware feature on photoshop. After the lab i wanted to take this new knowledge and skills and apply them to one of my own photos. Back in 2017 i visited the vatican and took this photo of a nun as she walked through one of the halls in St.Peters Basicalla. I wasnt too happy how the photo turned out it didnt really emphasize how devine the scene really was in real life. So i decide to open Photoshop to try fix this!
First thing i did was to try highlight the nun more so i selected the nun using my lasso tool & and isolated it to a seprate layer. From here i adjusted the white balance,brightness and shadow to really make the nun as angelic in the photo as she was in real life. (see photo one for results)
Another thing that ruined the photo was the machinery in the background. I used the the lasso tool to select the machinery and then used the content aware tool to fill in the gap. Photoshop was able to recognise the pattern of the pillar and fill it removing the machinery from the photo.(see photo two for results)
Also, just for fun i thought the photo would make a cool postcard so put it in black and white and used some typography for the vatican title.
But wait theres more! There is one more thing i did in this photo to just make it that much better in my opinion. Think you know what it is?
Comment on this post your answer and ill let you know if you got it right or not!