Step by step Double page spread

the first image shows how the orginal image was. I felt the writing on the wall wasn't neccessary and needed to be removed. I used a brush to paint over the writting. I then dublicated the border and put it in front of the image; this made the whole thing look like this, ready for the writing and other images.

the next picture I added into the double page spread was the image that represented the story I was going to write on the page. The Writting is about Bethany Marsh who has brought out a brand new album called "Trapped" I wanted to show how the images and the story relate therefore descided to create an image that linked to the album. The name of the album is Trapped so I wanted to make the image have this theme. I came up with a few idea but I really wanted to complete this one because it showed of my photoshop skills. I first started with a photoshoot of Bethany. I got her to hold a mirror and then took a few photos of this. the next photos I took were different. I put Bethany back into the position she was in whilst taking the first shots; but this time I got my sister to put her hand around Bethany's head. This then made the image in the mirror look very disturbing and as if she was being "trapped" by someone or something. after taking a few shots of the whole scene I took the images into photoshop. I chose the best image for the first shoot and then the best for the second. I put the first image into photoshop and then layed the second image over it. I then took the cutting tool in a faded edge brush and selected the area of second image I wanted. in this case I selected the mirror area. I then inversed the selection. This made everything but the mirror reflection selected. this was then cut out. I was then left with the first images and only the reflection of image two. after this, I took the second image and made it fit inside of the reflection of the first image. This then made it seem as though Bethany was seeing something different than was actually there.

Before I created the first image I tried it out using an apple. I was pleased with my results so therefore went ahead with the editing of my final image. This is the image below.

After I had created this image I started to play around with the different levels of opacity this meant that I could make the different images appear to be more visiable than others. I put both the images together and merged them by using a blending brush to blend out the  harsh line between the two images this made it look like this.

This image was then ready for the text. I decided to write out the story before I placed the text on the images. This made it easy to edit and improve. After I had applied the text it looked like this.

I descided that because my images were black and white that I would keep to this theme and make the text black.