Cross processing

Before

 After

Cross processing allows an images colourings to be altered, through the main use of the prime colours red, green and blue. this ends up giving an image a coloured effect to its background. If the image is sharper in red the colour a red tint will be applied, but if multiple colours are sharpened they can merge colours, in my after image i have a very sharp red and green tint, while keeping a small blue tint, this changes the white cloud in the background into a hazy explosion.

I performed this by creating a new layer and using the curves tool to allow editing of these colour tints this allowed me to change the shades of certain features of the picture making the effects on the image appear a lot stronger and powerful.

Because of these changes i have made the image appear more exciting making it appeal to a younger audience, for example if this image were to be used on the front cover of a magazine, it will connote to the audience that the magazine is more exciting and action pact, (which is exactly what the TA of a snowboarding magazine would like)

I may use an edit similar to this in my own magazine product if i can make an image look more exciting and action pact, i want to be able to do this because it will appeal to the young audience of my magazine, but on the other hand a lot of the images within the magazine are likely to be very un-animated and it would be hard to get it edited in this way to make them for exciting, so i am likely not to be using this edit type on my own product.