Advert: First draft

This is a first draft of my magazine advert.

Advert: Editing images, step-by-step

After opening the image in Photoshop, I cropped and rotated the image to straighten it out.

I decided to crop the image further after readjusting and strengthening it out.

I made an adjustment to brightness as the image was a bit dark.

I edited the 'colour balance' to add a hint of blue to it.

I zoomed in and used the 'spot healing' tool to remove blemishes, freckles and spots and make the image look flawless. 

Lastly, I adjusted the colour of the eyes to make them brighter and stand out more.

I did this by using the 'colour replacement tool' and using the colour grid to make them more blue.

Advert: Drawn up draft of advert

Here is an image of the first draft that I drew up of my advert. Although my drawing skills are not very good, I hope to create something along these lines for my final advert.

Digipak: Evaluation of first draft

 The first draft on my digipak follows many of the conventions I researched: name of artist on the front cover, an image. On the back: the songs, about the record company, a bar code and an image.

However, it is also missing things like the name of the album.

I plan to change my digipak by adding the name of the album, adding the name of the artist and title on the spine and I am considering to add a picture of the actual artist as I think this is important in order for the audience to be able to engage with the artist.

Digipak: First Draft

Here is a first draft of what my digipak will look like.

Digipak: Template for digipack

An image of a template for a digipak. I will need this when creating my digipak so that I know how to lay it out correctly.

Digipak: Editing images, step-by-step

After selecting the images I wanted to use on the front cover of my digipack, I had to edit them out. Here is proof of my step-by-step editing, which images and a brief explanation of what I did to create the final effect.

At first I opened the image in Photoshop and went to 'image', 'mode' and selected 'CYK'.

I then went to 'channels', un-selected the yellow and black channel to receive the effect as seen above.

Next, I went to 'adjustments', selected the brightness and changed it to 165.

After, I went to 'photo filter' and adjusted it until I liked the effect, I ended up keeping it at 35%.

To adjust the contrast, I selected 'brightness and contrast' and changed contrast to 12%.

I then amended the following:

Hue -7

Saturation +11

Lightness +4

At the very end, I used the crop tool to crop and readjust the grid (positioning) of the image to make it straighter. I saved the final image and plan to use it on my front cover of the digipack.

This is proof of editing and also a step-by-step guide of how I reached my final images.