1. Firstly open the picture you wish to edit in Photoshop CS4.2. Now before you do anything now, to get the best out of your model and the background, select the spot healing brush tool, which will get rid of any unwanted marks on either your model or the background. For my image I used this to blend in the fake tattoo to his skin so that it looked a little bit more real, I also used it to remove any marks on jason's skin and finally to remove a mark on the wall in the background.
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| Spot Healing Brush Tool (J) |
3. Now you will need to make the picture that gold colour (or any other colour you wish). To do this you will select "Image", "Adjustments" then "Hue/Saturation" (or to speed things up just press "Ctnl+U"). Once you have done this a screen will pop up with three bars; One reading "Hue", one reading "Saturation" and the other reading "Lightness". Now before you edit these make sure you have checked the box saying "Colorize". To get the effect I got you will have to put the "Hue" to 45, the "Saturation" to 37 and the "Lightness" to +1.
4. Now you have the golden look to it, the darker parts of the picture are starting to fade. To fix this I then selected "Image", "Adjustments" then "Brightness/Contrast". Again you will need to play around with this until you find the look you desire. My "Brightness/Contrast" was set at "Brightness" -30 and "Contrast" 64.
5. Finally you have that look you were after, so now all you need to do is save your picture as a JPEG and then import it to Adobe InDesign and use it as the background to your magazine front cover.
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