Editing my digipak

Editing my digipak

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  This is myimage in colour after editing this by changing the colour of my actress’ lipstick; brightness and shadows as well as increasing the saturation to make the red background look more vibrant. This is the image in black and white with a pop of colour in the lipstick. This idea came from Rick Ross’ (hip hop artist) album cover which the image was black and white with bursts of colour.
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  I chose tomake this image look a little more girly by changing the lipstick colour from blue to purple and adding pink hearts around the image however I felt as though this did not look as conventional as existing album artwork by Beyoncé. I also added red to the word ‘hype’ written on the shirt to give it more colour. This effect makes the image look posterised by brightening some areas. I liked this however did not feel as though it came across as a ‘sassy’ image which I wanted to go for.
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  ORIGINAL IMAGE
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  I have usedthe tools below to enhance the look of the original image before applying font and other images.
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  Here, I haveadded white text in the font style ‘Bebas Neue’ free from www.fontsquirrel.com. After importing the image I used the magic wand tool to remove the white background so only the letters were left. I then added this pink text in the font style ‘Bebas Neue’ also and used the warp tool in order to adjust the look of the image. I liked the idea of pink and white because they contrast and are girly colours, also the capitals reinforce the attitude theme. In order to conform to the conventions of existing albums I added the parental advisory image to the bottom left of the album. This is because some of my scenes are categorised as suitable for an audience above 15 yrs old.
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  I initially wasgoing to use the same font for my artist’s name as the title of the album however after receiving feedback it was most preferred by my peers to use the font style to the right which is ‘Always in my heart’ from www.dafont.com. Here, I have changed the text on my album name from white to red however I preferred the white colour.
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  I made arectangular shape and filled it with pink colour. I then added the font to make my sticker seem more realistic. I didn’t realise that I was writing ‘Flawless’ which is the album name therefore had to change this to ‘Feeling Myself’ by Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj is a friend of Beyonce’s and she has featured in the song Feeling Myself with Nicki too which is why I specifically chose this song to feature on the sticker and on the track list.
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  This disc wasan image of a dome which I took at a park. I have edited the image to make look more vibrant and increased the contrast. To make the shape of the disc I used the rubber tool to erase the image on the outside of the circle as well as the polygon lasso tool to cut round the circle’s edges. The 2nd disc (DVD) is the image from my front cover however I have cloned this so that it blended nicely on the disc’s shape. I also increased the vibrancy on this image using ‘image’- ‘adjustments’- ‘vibrancy’. The image above for my digipak is up-side-down due to the layout for printing however this is a shot I have taken from my music video featuring my actress’s body against the Hollywood lit background from footage which I got at a concert. I played around with the image adjustments to make this look better and more colourful.
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  Firstly, this imagewas in a hallway which the wallpaper and carpet where on sow so I used the quick selection too l to erase the parts I did not need so that I was left with the body. I then used the liquify tool in Photoshop to adjust the actress’ body shape. I dragged out the shape of the bum so that it looked more plump and round like Beyoncé's and I made the waist look smaller too. I did not feel as though this looked professional enough to feature on my digipak as the body looked unrealistic therefore I stuck to the original image with a nice effect and placed it onto a black background.
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  This is theimage from the previous slide underneath my track listing. I have changed the hue and saturation to make the image look purple and red however the red clashed slightly and it is harder to see what the image is behind the font. This image underneath my track listing is another which I have edited as inspired by Demi Lovato’s album ‘Confident’. This is more purple to suit the colour scheme I have used throughout. This image looked like it needed something else so… I combined both images under the track listing which seemed to be the most preferred image overall.