Photoshop Tutorial - Text Edits

When creating a digipak it is crucial that the text is something that stands out over everything else. With that in mind, this type of edit is very clever as it allows any photo to be placed with text over the top which for a band could be very useful. The image will stand out as well the text and they will both be as important as each other. I will probably end up using this type of edit or something similar when creating my final digipak. As you can see you can see the text very clearly but the image behind is also relatively easy to see.

Photoshop Tutorial - Selective Colour

The selective colour is the most effective edit in my opinion as it makes one thing in the image stand out over everything else. For this tutorial I used something that I think would look very professional which was a football player celebrating and only making his shirt in colour. I think this looks good as it highlights the importance of a certain aspect of the photo over everything else,  in this case the only thing in colour is the shirt of the goalscorer, Robin van Persie, which makes him stand out from everyone else.

As you can see, by colouring in one part of the photo, it stands out a lot more than everything else, something that can be useful on an album cover if I wanted to make one significant part of the image highlighted over everything else.

Photoshop Tutorial - Surreal Effect

Above is the original image I started with before I added the surreal effect.  I chose to do this tutorial as I think that this particular photoshop will be useful for a digipak and will therefore be useful to me next year. The image of the woods below would look good on its own, but adding the surreal effect makes it look a lot cleaner. It also gives the effect of distortion, something that links well with music.

As you can see, the image now looks a lot different and I think that this is for the best because it looks strange and uneasy, as if it is fresh out of a horror film. As I said previously the photo is now distorted which links with music, so I think that this effect is one that I will use when I come to completing my final image later in the year.

A2 Brief

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with:

• a digipak for the album’s release;

• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.