Inspiration:

1. Open your photo in photoshop:
   – Enhance the brightness / contrast / colour of the photo before you begin this edit.
   – Tip: This edit can work better if there is a balance of positive and negative space (For example: the photo below has a large portion of sky which acts as the negative space)

2. Next you are going to select a circle in the image….
Click the Elliptical Marquee tool

3. Draw your circular selection. TIP: Hold shift to lock proportions and make a perfect circle AND hold alt to make the circle expand from the centre.

Spend time getting your selection as you want it. If you want to start again, hold CTRL + D on your keyboard to deselect.

4. With the selection made, right click on the selection and click: Layer Via Copy.

(This will copy the circle to a new layer as you can see in the screenshot of the layers panel below)

5. Now you are going to rotate that circle….

• With the circle layer selected, click CTRL + T on your keyboard to activate Free Transform.
• Hover your curser over the corner of the image… you will see a little rotate symbol appear (like below)

• When you see the little rotate symbol appear, click and drag your image to rotate it. Tip: You can hold shift to make the image snap perfectly to 90 / 180 degrees.

6. From here, you can experiment with a few different options.
I recommend trying the following:

Blend Modes:

• Experiment with different blending modes: In the layers panel, click where it says ‘normal’ this is where you can change the blend mode.

I chose to use ‘Screen’: (Tip: if the colours seem faded, you can enhance them later)

Colour / Hue Experimentation:

• I recommend experimenting with changing the hue of your circle layer to give some creative results.
• Go to: Image > Adjustments > Hue and Saturation > and move the ‘hue’ bar to test different outcomes.

• This is the result I got when I adjusted the Hue bar all the way to -180.

7. Enhance the colours for your final result:

• Click back onto your background layer to edit it.

• Go to Image > adjustments > Brightness / Contrast

• adjust the highlights and shadows as well as the Brightness and Contrast to your desired effect

8. Crop your image.

• Select the crop tool

• Make sure ‘Delete Cropped Pixels’ is unticked (this makes sure you keep anything outside the crop marks, in case you want to change your cropping later on)..
• Depending on which version of photoshop you have, this will look like a little bin and crop tool or it will say ‘delete cropped pixels’ (Like the images below).

• When cropping, make sure your circle is in the centre. Choose if you want it to be portrait / landscape / square (I chose square)

9. Rotate:

You can also rotate while in the crop mode

Tip: Notice how the corner of my image is now transparent… you can use Photoshop’s clever ‘Generative Fill’ to fix this: –

• While in the crop mode (before clicking enter) go to where it says ‘Fill’ along the top toolbar.

• Change to – Generative Expand

• Then press enter…. Notice how it cleverly fills in the transparent corner.