Preparing the cover Image

For the cover image I wanted to  have a medium close up shot of a person as that is a typical convention for a magazine. I took 4 photos which I have displayed below as contact sheet.  I had a persons stand in front of a solid purple background as I thought it would be easier to remove them from this background once colour correction had been taken into account.  However for my second set of photos I had a shot of a person leaning on the college sign post. I  thought it would be a good idea  to incorporate this object into my covers design by having it run down the side of my image. I thought that the pole fit into my idea of a contrasting black and white colour scheme.

I selected this photograph for my cover  and I removed the background on Adobe Photoshop by using the polygonal lasso tool. I then corrected the colours with the colour contamination tool.