Final Ancillary tasks

The black and white effect created around the actor and not the reflection was made by using the magnetic lasso tool and selecting the area surrounding the actor, double clicking to select the area made by the lasso tool. Then we selected the option black and white in the edit. This therefore distorts the reality of the image as its contrasted with colour and black and white. The purple colouring in the image was done by changing the hue of the image and therefore disrupts the sense of normality even further. The text was entered on top of the layer in non-busy areas of the piece.

I used Adobe photoshop CS4 for the editing of these pictures, I started off by cropping the picture to get the square shape as this is how albums are formatted. The contrast in light across the actors face is the most aesthetically pleasing part of the cover, so by emphasising this by changing the 'contrast' by going in to 'Image' and change the 'contrast'; this made the dark, darker and the light lighter. The contrast make the light more vibrant and bring the audiences attention to the lighter parts. Then there was the task of making the eye look 'zombiefied', The first task was to use a white paintbrush effect but with a softened edge brush as this blends better into the picture, but putting it on a low transparency so its' For this image we wanted to create a contrast between the front and back cover so therefore had the back to be primarily white with black area's within the composition. We changed the the colouring by using the lighting edit tool on Photoshop. To get the grainy edged look on the piece we made the contrast extremely high. Then we cropped the image into a square shape to create the mode of a CD . Text was then inserted ontop of the image to create the tracklisting and band name, using black font to contrast the background and emphasise its presence. The bar code along with the production logo was additionally added ontop of the composition by adding another layer onto the piece.