Playing around with Photoshop effects

After a previous mentor meeting with Sharon she mentioned that it could be interesting to add effects onto the images. I wanted to try out a few different effects using tutorials on YouTube. I decided to look at painting effects, sharpening and cartoon effects as I thought that this could be cool to use for the final images.  Below are the finished images and the tutorials which i used to edit the images. 

Water colour painting

Powerful, HDR, Photographic Portraits

Cartoon comic book

Water colour painting with paper texture

I don't think that I will use any of these editing techniques for the exhibition as I think that it will distract from the hair and the makeup and it takes away attention and changes the whole feel to the images. 

Editing necklace out of Gordon sister images

In an IT session Jon also showed me how to edit out the necklace of the gordon sister shoot. I had previously tried to use the spot healing brush tool and the clone stamping tool however I was really struggling to do this. Jon advised me to use a layer mask to ensure that part of the hair wrapped around the neck would not be removed. Below is the final outcome of my editing of the necklace chain.