Using Photoshop: Editing Background of Image

 

 The origonal images were good, but they needed to be edited. When taking the photo's I wanted to make the graffiti very saturated and to boost the contrast to get a cool effect.

 

When I did this however, my model was also affected. 

This is my solution.

I cut out the model and saved it as a layer in another file. Then, once I had acheived what I needed with the image I put the layer back on top of the image.

Once I positioned the layer of the model correctly, I noticed that where he had been cut out, some of the colours around him were noticably differnt due to the fact that it hadn't been saturated.

Here is an example of how you can see that the colours differ.

I then used a mixture of two techniques. The first, meant correcting the colours around the model by getting the exact colour and drawing over it.
The second meant simply using a very small brush to erase the parts I didn't want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the colour being corrected with the paint tool.

 

Zoomed in, finished image. - Colour corrected.