Photoshop experiments

Photoshop is a very useful and powerful program, where I can experiment with different photographs with alternative effects by using selective filters. However, when I decided what effects to experiment towards my two media texts, I made sure I did not choose a random filter. I carefully looked through all of the designs and selected the ones where I can relate them to the horror genre. Although, a careful selection is needed I too did experiment with a variety of effects which conveyed different impacts, expressing and improving my creativity.

Here are some experiments I produced on photoshop.

From my research I identified that posters and magazines consist of images having a significant impact, resulting from several reasons but mainly focusing of the facial expressions of a figure. This follows one of my initial photographs of a pair of eyes, showing a great deal of character and emotion. This is clearly shown from the shape of the eye brows expressing a mean, uneasy and aggressive connotation, which all reflect the horror theme.

I then opened this image on photoshop to enhance the creative flare of the photograph. In this picture below, I used a common 'adjustment', involving changing the lighting and above all, the contrast of the image. To be more exact, when applying this effect, it produced the initial black colours to become more enhanced and darker. This personified the eye brows to become a greater element in the image, especially when they began to cover the eyes of the individual. This will create a further suspicion between the audience and the photo because the eyes are slightly hidden, which makes the audience want to look further into the image, having a purpose of looking deeper into the pair of eyes.

A further experiment was then formed by using a stamp filter to create a different and unconventional theme facial expressions. Although, this is an experiment I realised that this technique is not clear enough to be situated on a front cover on a magazine or on a poster. However, red was the colour applied as it was used in the preview, which I thought worked and portrayed a convention aspect of blood, hostility and shows signs of arising from a horror background.