Photoshop Editing, CD Cover and Poster

To create our CD covers and poster we took pics on location. Because we filmed on two different locations we decided to take the pics from our beach location. We took our pictures on an iphone camera and a normal camera but the iphone pictures were much clearer and sharper. We took several photos from many different angles so we wouldn't be short. We had a rough idea before we went which enabled us to start photoshopping almost as soon as we got there. In our video we have a shot where the water washes some writing away. We wanted our text to be similar and almost be the text that the band is represented by. This was implemented across both the poster and the CD cover to add a cohesive element. The text we used was Rage Italic. All the text we wrote was in white to create cohesion. The pictures below are the originals the finished covers will be in a Final Product Post later.    
Poster
To create the poster we took a photo that we thought was the best photo for the poster. It included our actor in the centre of the photo right at the bottom. As the actor was small in the photo it allowed us to put the writing in the sky above. We wrote the name of the band in rage Italic and wrote the rest of the information on the poster in Rockwell as the release date and other information was not to be written in the bands text. The only other text we used was to right the comment from our record label to make it stand out. We chose white text as it was the text that looked quite clearly the best in the places we wanted it. On the poster the text is central to match the actor at the bottom. Our poster is the same colour it was originally however we did change the brightness to see if we could change the glare of the sun. We included the bands myspace address at the bottom right which is the only text that isn't central. We decided to have this not central because it would have been over our main image which we did not want.

Poster

CD Sleeve's
We decided to split our group to do the CD sleeves. I did the back cover and the inserts while Azza did the front cover and James focused on the poster. We changed the front and back cover pictures that we had taken to black and white. This looked good but didn't work with our white text and the difference in the two pictures colour was quite big. This meant that again we removed the special effects and let the simplicity and elegance of the pictures come through. The inserts were much easier than I thought. On photoshop we had template sizes that were to the size of a cd cover. We had several brilliant pictures that we knew we wanted to use, because the pictures were so good we didn't have to do many special effects. The old phrase less is more. One of our inserts is a two page spread of the location where we filmed it looks brilliant however there were only a few birds on the picture and they were all right up the top and almost out of the shot. I thought it would be good to add an extra bird in a bit further down. To do this I used photoshops Magnetic Lasso tool this allows you to outline a particular part of the image. I drew it around one of the birds from a different picture and copied it over. The bird in the two page spread that is photoshopped is the far left one. The other CD inserts were all relatively easy because we did a similar thing in playing around with the colours and adding a bit of text to them.

Front Cover

Back Cover

Although we did these separately we were all around one table and were constantly helping each other out and suggesting different things. As we were so close to each other we were able to see all our products and were able to make them as cohesive as possible. We believe we have done that and have received positive feedback on the cohesion of them.