TH Editing Digipak (1)

While I have been mainly working on the music video, I have made one image for the digipak so far.

This is the image, depicting the headband worn by Paul, the drummer of our band.

The first thing to do was to make the canvas square, so that any editing I did on the photo would be in the right proportion for the panes. This also got rid of any of the background we did not want in the image, such as other parts of the drum and the floor. I zoomed in on the image and cropped out the unwanted parts.

I removed clutter in the upper right area using the mask effect tool. The tool essentially got rid of the background colour and I made this black. This made it easier to go between layers because I could clearly differentiate between coloured parts and greyscale parts.
I increased the contrast in the black and white layer, as the lighting on the symbol was quite nice. The coloured layer now stands out more too.

On the top of this layer, the whole picture was added again with everything cut out apart from bandana. This is how the two different elements of the image stand out so well without interference between layers.