Editing

These two lessons we have been working on our digipaks. I started on the front cover and I decided to use the picture of me with my arm out, where I have written "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger". I believe this picture is really eyecatching because the eyelashes are really clear. I look very dominant in this image in contrast to other images where my head is down, and my posture a lot lower. 

I rotated it towards the left, to put the main attention on the arm, placing it in the center of the frame. This worked really well. However, once I rotated it, the corners were left black, leaving me to pick up the same colour as the background to fill them. This was not as easy as I though it would be, due to the flash that I used to take the picture. I picture has a gradient effect, it is lighter in the middle areas but darker on the outsides. It left me to consider cutting out myself, and putting myself on the background which was not an idea I really wanted to carry out. After spending some extra time at lunch I managed to clone the outside areas, and fortunately it fit in well with the rest of the background. I also added the name of the artist "Kassie" in the colour brown. I believed this works really well with the brown eyelashes. I also asked a number of people in  my class and they thought it would work better than a different colour such as bright pink, grey etc. 

I also started working on the inside panels. My initial idea was to use a screen shot of me throwing the glass. However, this idea changed when I realised that this would be a really bad idea, due to the highly pixelated image. It was extremely difficult to see what I was throwing, and it was really dark overall. I replaced this with an screen grab of me sitting down on the floor with my head in my hands. This image had better quality due to the brighter lighting. 

Last lesson I worked on the second inside panel. I did not want to use another image of me that I took recently with the eyelashes as it would be repetitive and would lack visual variety. Instead, I took a screen grab of the beginning sequence where there is a close-up of the book, and layered this with a few images from the music video. I wanted to use this as it gives the audience an insight into what the subjects of the songs may be etc. I worked on blurring the edges of the pictures so that the lines would be less defined, and would blend nicely into the background. Next lesson I am hoping to work the back panel. I want to use an image which I took  previously, but rather than being extremely similar to the front cover, I am using one where my fringe is covering my face, and where my hair is blowing  (this effect was created with the use of a blow-dryer). 

Here is the image below:

I want to use this image as it shows quite a vulnerable side to the artist, in contrast to the image on the front cover. The way my hair is covering a section of my face signifies a sense of secrecy which I think will really work well in the album. Despite my posture being quite lower than the other image, the eyelashes are still very clear, and the eye make-up is also shown in this section. I like the fact that this will add a sense of variety to the digipak rather than it being dull, boring and repetitive.