Overview

The software I used to edit and manipulate these images was Adobe Photoshop. This software was very suitable for what I was doing since it had a wide array of manipulation tools including the smudge tool, pen tool for selection, lots of filters, liquidation tool, brushes which could be customized a lot etc. It also has lots of ways to allow you to adjust colour in the picture ranging from simple brightness sliders to colour-precise sliders which could adjust only certain colours in an image e.g. red. Photoshop also has very good selection tools which either let you create a selection very carefully (pen tool) or freehand selection (lasso tool). There is also a magic wand tool which picks a selection based on similar colours to the one you choose and you can select the tolerance of the wand.

The file formats I saved the pictures in were the original PSD’s so I could always have access to the original picture and all layers etc. I saved the final image in the JPEG format because it has very good picture compression where it loses very little quality and it also maintains a very small file size. The image resolution of each original picture was approx. 4000 x 3000 pixels. The last picture was cropped but none of the picture was saved at a reduced resolution as that would lower the quality of the image. I saved the pictures at full resolution because when the resolution is lowered, the small details of objects in the picture deteriorate and are hard to see which I don’t want. The colour depth used for the images was 24-bit (16.7 million colours) because this is the typical colour depth of JPEG images. This is a very good colour depth since it contains a lot of different colours which is very suitable for real-life photos.