Manipulating contents page photograph's

This picture is from my original photoshoot and will feature in my contents page. I have cut the girl out from the background and changed the colours on the photograph so they are must more subtle and pale. The imgae will fit into the contents page's colour scheme very well now.

Here is the photograph of the guitar after I edited it to remove the background and reduce the saturation. By doing this, the guitar picture links with the other photograph on the front cover.

Both images relate to music; my magazine is for a performing art school which therefore makes the images appropriate.