MC: Editing The Digipak 2

On Monday 9th November, I chose a different image to edit for our digipak front cover. I have taken inspiration from Ella Henderson's front cover for her album 'Chapter One'. The reason I have chosen this picture is because it emphasizes the natural beauty of our singer. Having her looking to the side gives her a feminine look whilst showing emotion that is shown in the song. Here is the image I have chosen to edit:

I then felt I wanted the edges of the image to feel less sharp so therefore I decided to put in a gradient adjustment layer. I made it into a radial style and took away the black so it was a soft white effect coming in round the edges.

I wanted to keep the photo quite simple and not make the post production effects very obvious. To start with I added a curve adjustment layer. On the RBG channel, I enhanced the whiter areas by moving a dot near to the top of the diagonal line slightly upwards. I then made the black areas darker by moving a dot near to the bottom of the diagonal line slightly downwards. This brighten up her face and made it sand out more.

  

Then I wanted to give the picture a warm effect. To do this I added another adjustment layer. I chose the photo filter option and on this I chose the Warm Filter (85) as it didn't make the picture look overly orange. I then altered the density of it to 35% so it wasn't too strong.



Next I used the crop tool to create the image into a square shape. This is so I was able to see what it will look like when its in a square shape like the front cover so I was able to fit the text in.

Then I used the text tool and chose PosterBodoni It BT as our text style as it gives a bold yet feminine effect to her name.

After I was happy with how the digipak looked I placed it onto a template of a six pane digipak and made it fit. This is how our digipak looks so far.