Skills Develpment

Before and After photo

Before

After

The original image had a horribly dull boring sky so I used the magic wand tool and selected the sky. I then went to levels and used the filter tool, I chose a blue filter so the sky would look bluer and then i changed the brightness too to get the colour of sky i wanted.

I then selected the road and foreground with my magic wand tool and carefully selected different bits and brightened them up to give a reder coloured soil which i felt would look look contrasting with the blue of the sky. I then realised that on the horizon some of the sky was still a greyish colour because the magic wand had not picked up those areas. I then repeated the original process of changing the filter to get a similar colour that would be unoticable.

I was thinking of taking out the telegraph pole but decided that your eye followed them down the road and without them the viewer would not be able to image the lengh of the road and the surrounding bleak harsh landscape.

I finally decided that the sky was too big and cropped the photo at the top so the viewers eye would be drawn more towards the horizon and the firery coloured road.