Example of picture editing

This is the original picture which i transferred from my camera onto the computer. This program which it opens with is called Windows photo Gallery.

Using this program i was able to manipulate my picture using simple techniques. As you can see above i changed both the brightness contrast and fixed the red eye. Already you can see the improvement from before and after this.

Now, open Macromedia Fireworks (icon above)

The program will then begin to run. To open the file in this program you will first need to save it as a picture and find it on your desktop.

Once the picture opens you will see it appears as shown above. You are now able to edit your picture using a range of tools ( some shown below).

My main focus was not to change the photo, but to crop and get rid of the background so it would blend in with my page in my production. To do this i choose the Magic Wand Tool. This tool allows me to select areas that are the same colour and delete them. So i was able to get a more accurate cut i zoomed in, you do this by the small icon on the bottom right of the screen.

This picture above shows the outcome of the Magic Wand Tool. As you can see the area that was highlighted in the previous screen shot is no longer there instead the canvas has become transparent.

Once you have used that Magic Wand to erase the background it is likely that you still have areas where the original background did not erase. To fix this you can use either the Eraser tool, where you are able to adjust the size, shape and edge, all of which enable you to get precision when cutting close to the model. Or alternatively you can use the Lasso tool, this allows you to simply lasso around areas which you wish to delete and then delete them.

Once the background is transparent you can either fill it using a number of colours to choose from or you can leave it transparent. The benefit of leaving it transparent is that when you use it within your productions it is only the model you can see, the rest will blend with whatever colour the page is.