Editing Contents Page Image

Today I have started to edit an image I am planning to use on my contents page. To edit this image, I used photoshop as usual and tried something new. I added a light leak to my image which is as you can see light going from yellow to purplish blue. This suits my colour scheme which means I would continue the colour scheme from my front cover to my contents page when I start my front cover. To make the light leak transparent I changed the setting to 'Lighten' rather than 'Multiply' because I only use the second option with tattoos. 'Lighten' only made the image lighter whereas 'Multiply' makes the image transparent which blends in with the skin. I used the setting 'Multiply' on the tattoo on my models neck. I also added a septum piercing to make him look a lot more gothic as piercings are a huge part of the rock/metal sub-culture.