today i learnt to use the magnetic lasso tool, the sponge tool and the burn tool. These three tools helped me create this vampire look. I've found this tutorial the easiest to use so far and the most enjoyable. However the magnetic lasso tool was rather tricky to use as you have to be very patient and careful where you are clicking. I could have improved this by using the burn tool on the ears and neck, to get the over all effect, as it looks like she's wearing facepaint at the moment.

This lesson I learnt to use the heal tool. So far it's my favourite tool on photoshop. It's very simple to use but very effective. In the industry it is used very frequently on celebrites as they have to maintain a flawless look. It's used to hide blemishes, spots, wrinckles, scars etc.

When producing my cd cover I experimented with lots of different brushes, one that looked like a bullet hole and another that looked like fallen leaves, but i thought they were all too fussy for the idea i was going for. So I decided to choose a bright multi coloured back ground, that was created using the stamp and just a simple font called 'stencil' to create a retro looking CD cover.

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