PHOTOSHOP PROGRESS 04/02/2014

I began with the photo I am using for my double page spread. I used the quick selection tool to cut around the model and to delete the background, however once the background was gone, you could still see gaps of it through the hair. To resolve this, first I tried to use the magic wand tool/quick selection tool to delete it, however the flicks of hair you can see in the image beside the blue gaps looked strange, so I used a youtube tutorial to find out how I can make the hair look realistic however so the background was gone. Here is the youtube tutorial. Once the hair was smooth enough so that it still looked realistic, I used the eraser tool to erase the hair that is seen flicking out at the side beside the background gaps. You can see this in the finished edit:

 

 

 

The reason you can't see the other arm etc is because this is how I would like it to look on my double page spread, so beside the image on the left is where the columns of text would be. In addition to this editing, I also used the clone stamp tool to airbrush the image.