Lynx Editing

I edited in Photoshop CS6, and used the healing brush in normal mode firstly to get rid of small dust freckles and fluff off the bottle, which were naturally there. This made the bottle look "perfect", like they do in paper advertisements. I then duplicated the layer, and used the gaussian blur to blur out the background. When reviewing my photographs after exiting the studio, I noticed I had failed to clean the product table, which was full of dust and residue from other product shoots, big mistake! I then erased the bottle, to let the original, un-blurred bottle come back through, this made the bottle stand out more whilst getting rid of the dirty background. Note to self: clean the product table next time! Valuable lesson learnt.

Blur off

Blur on.

I then noticed that the word "spray" was blown out because of the lighting direction, and had an unusual orange glow around the edges. I therefore used the shadows and highlights tool to correct this subtly, and then used the hue and saturation tool to get rid of the orange glow. When reflecting on how I photographed this product, I would make some changes as to how I photographed it if I was to do a product shoot again. I have only done two product shoots to this date, both have been successful due to editing techniques. Next time, I need to make sure that both the product and the product table are throughly cleaned before I photograph them, as this took a lot of time in post production, making sure everything was clean and presentable.

Original highlight overload.

Highlight overload treated.

I then decided how I wanted to edited my background.I had photographed my Lynx bottle on a white product table, which was all I had available. I took some ink droplets in water from Google Images and pages like Flickr and DeviantArt which were for personal use, and placed them in my background. I used the layer tools to change the layer to blend into the background, some to overlay, some to darken and some to colour burn. This meant that I could keep the clear brush tool to a minimum. I am happy with my final design and think it looks professional. However, if I had more time next time, I would take the ink droplet images myself.

INK DROPLET IMAGES:

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/07/04/27/

http://bliz-art.deviantart.com/art/Ink-149469223

http://fstopfashion.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/blue_ink_in_water_by_kokoshadow-d2xx5bk.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnug01Bv731qhvi9ao1_500.jpg

http://claregreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Ink-in-water-1-1024x901.jpg