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| A screenshot of the finished piece |
This image is a prototype design for the back cover of our album digipak. There is a shot of the band together 'backstage' at the gig. On the right is the track list for McBusted's deluxe debut album.
I first imported the original image (above) and applied a few simple adjustments to it. These included a filter of a red tint. Then, I reduced the contrast in the image but increased highlights ever so slightly. All of this has left a warm colour that should hopefully correspond to the rest of the album's palette - we are intending on making reds and blacks a theme.
After the image looked this way, I had to remove the unfortunate placement of a hand in the bottom left corner (seen in the original image). The image is not a square and so it will be cropped again, but in spite of this I thought that getting rid of this obstruction would be worthwhile nonetheless. I initially tried to use the clone stamp tool to attempt to reproduce the wall behind it. This was not very effective. I therefore decided to just crop the image using the image adjustment tool and zooming in on the picture - making sure to zoom in ratio to the whole thing, rather than distorting it.
Finally, I had to include the song titles because this image was designed to be a contender for the rear pane of our digipak. The font seen in the finished piece is what I first selected; there was no need to search for appropriate font styles as Dan and I have already decided that this font will look good on the digipak. It may not be the one we end up going with but at the current stage in our project, we believe it will conform to the album's metanarrative and band image. I typed up each song name individually and placed them individually but after this I linked each of their separate layers together to form one layer. This means that when using the Photoshop project again, it will be a much simpler job moving them around as one layer. I have not included track lengths, I may do this later on if we decide to go with this image for the digipak.
After the image looked this way, I had to remove the unfortunate placement of a hand in the bottom left corner (seen in the original image). The image is not a square and so it will be cropped again, but in spite of this I thought that getting rid of this obstruction would be worthwhile nonetheless. I initially tried to use the clone stamp tool to attempt to reproduce the wall behind it. This was not very effective. I therefore decided to just crop the image using the image adjustment tool and zooming in on the picture - making sure to zoom in ratio to the whole thing, rather than distorting it.
Finally, I had to include the song titles because this image was designed to be a contender for the rear pane of our digipak. The font seen in the finished piece is what I first selected; there was no need to search for appropriate font styles as Dan and I have already decided that this font will look good on the digipak. It may not be the one we end up going with but at the current stage in our project, we believe it will conform to the album's metanarrative and band image. I typed up each song name individually and placed them individually but after this I linked each of their separate layers together to form one layer. This means that when using the Photoshop project again, it will be a much simpler job moving them around as one layer. I have not included track lengths, I may do this later on if we decide to go with this image for the digipak.
Well done Tom, I like the fact that you are looking at the camera and the rest of the band are largely looking away. I think you could crop in a bit further but I like the fact you are trying different colour grading to get the vintage look
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