Using Photoshop To Manipulate Digipak Images

When creating our digipak we had to manipulate the photo's and font in Photoshop to create the mood for the album that we wanted. The mood we wanted to create was quite dark and gloomy but also a little bit seductive and presenting female power. The first photo we manipulated was the picture of the lips

We used a mask to hide everything but the lips. The we brightened the teeth to make them appear whiter, and adjusted the brightness and saturation to create the perfect shade of red that we thought looked nicest. We then placed the lips without a background on to the CD.  

For the front cover image, we needed to darken it to make it look more as if it was taken jsut before dawn, after a night out. We adjusted the brightness to make it darker but discovered by doing this it appeared that the toes started glowing red. To distinguish this problem we used two layers (one the original photo and one the darkened.) Then by adjusting how much of the original image we saw of the toe's, we made it so that they weren't too light but also not glowing.

To create our font we picked a script font and then using a mask we removed bits we didn't want to include and drew in more swirly bits to create a smokey affect. Then we used the smudge tool to make the font look as if it was smoke fading off.