Using Adobe Photoshop a lot can be done with the photos I've taken. For this particular image I wanted to use on my contents page is a plug for the audience to visit the site, or wait until next weeks issue were the story will be expanded on.
So for this image, "Mystery Rock Chicks" I wanted to do a silhouette which showed clearly with the instruments that they are a rock band and also that they are an all woman rock band.
Firstly I took my original images, cropped out the figure and painted it black.
Next I had to make each person look distinctly different, by adding in different hairstyles for each digitally.
I made sure that all my models had tied their hair back so that it would be easier to super impose an edgier hairstyle. Once the hairstyles had been replaced, I meshed them into the right shape and resized them.
Similarly with the figures themselves, using the same technique of meshing so that I could make them distinctly different by changing their body shapes and lengthening legs.
The background has a brown to grey gradient filter so that it wasn't completely black on white.
Finally I added the text, so the photo now has a more evident meaning and the anchorage text in red is smaller to expand on what we already know about them.
