These photos show how I edited my images for my GLEAM shoot. There wasn't too much editing needed on these photos because of all the glitter I used altered the texture on the skin so the only retouching I needed was to change the white balance slightly, change the brightness and contrast, making the background black and also light use of the burn and dodge tool.
The problems that I had with my images was that you could see dirty footprints on the background so I burnt this out using the burn tool, I also cleaned up stray hairs doing this also, as you can see with the first image below, I have not used the burn tool as effectively as I would have liked so the image looks badly edited, I am not happy with my final image looking like this so I am going to go back and re edit the photo.
If not for the background I used the burn tool slightly around the eye and on the pupil, and also used the dodge tool to make the eye shine. The use of these tools was mostly to create a greater contrast between the light and dark in my images.
I used the clone stamp tool twice on my images, once on the hand to correct a drip of glitter which didn't look good and on my close up image of the eye to correct some of the mascara which had dotted onto the lid as this did not look professional and was an easy fix.
Overall I am pleased with my edited images, I feel like these little tweaks really brought out the colours of the gels and have created some really dramatic images.
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