Editing Process

After reviewing all of my images I chose which one I felt was most successful.

this is my final image before any editing.

There were a few things about the image which I did not like and therefore I planned on correcting these things using photoshop.

Firstly, using photoshop raw, I lightened the highlights, and darkened the blacks, thus creating more of a contrast within the image.
I then darkened the blue within the image a little to get a deeper blue colour.
I then adjusted the white and  shadows to make them lighter.
I then darkened the shadows within the image.
Later I went onto cropping the image the get the correct amount of framing which I wanted, as I wanted the bottle to be the in the centre of the image.
I then used the clone stamp tool to take away all of the little bubbles that the water inside the bottle had created making it looking smoother with no bumps.
As I had realised that the lid of the bottle was too dark, I then decided to look at my other images and take the lid from one of them and add it to my chosen image. I done this by creating a new layer and painting into the image making it appear. I used the feathering tool whilst doing this so I wouldn't get any harsh lines.
After this, I had my most challenging part of editing. As I wanted a completely black background I had to paint on black around the bottle very carefully. To do this successfully, I lowered the capacity of the paint to 35% when doing it around the edge of the bottle so I would not paint inside it.

This is my image after the editing process.