Music Video
Editing Attempt 1
Firstly I needed to edit the album cover photograph which was done in a photograph studio because we wanted a white background. I then edited the rest of the photographs on the digipak which where done on location either at The Vicitorian Swimming Baths where we shot our music video or on a park.
Album Cover Edit
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This is the original image I want to use for the album cover, as you can see it has bad quality and lighting which I will need to fix in Photoshop. I chose this photograph because it portrays the innocent, pure look I wanted of our artist, also shows her features clear.
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First of all I opened the photograph in camera raw so that I could edit the basic details. I cropped the photograph so that it was square because I found in my research that most album covers are square. I then changed the exposure and lightening to brighten the photograph and correct the lightening issues.
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Then I went on the detail tab and turned the sharpness up to make the photograph clearer. However I didn’t want everything sharpened therefore I kept hold of shift and turned up the masking, this sharpens only the important detail such as hair and eyes rather than also sharpening the noise in the photograph. Finally I turned up the luminance because this gives her the air brushed look because it smooth’s the noise in the photograph making the overall photograph softer.
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This is my photograph after I have altered the basic settings, it is now much clearer and is starting to look how I want. Now I need to add the artist name, album title and sharpen the eyes because in research I have always fine the eyes are the sharpest point.
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I then added a clipped curve on a white layer which I then used a black brush to highlight the hair. I then added another curve but this time a darkened one I used this to paint on dark edges which will draw attention towards the artist.
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Next I used a highpass filter on a soft lighting effect and drew on the eyes to brighten them and add more colour into them. I then used the sharpening tool to sharpen them further. Finally I added the colour look up soft warming which adds a warm pink colouring making the photograph look more feminine and warm.
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I then used simple, bold white text to add her name so that people recognise the artist or can find out more about her. I put a white layer mask on the text and used a black brush to remove the writing were her head was so that the text looks like it is behind her.
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Finally I used the same font for the album title but changed the colour to a grey so that it separates this text from the artist’s name.
Top Right Edit
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This is the photograph I chose for the top right because I think I ties in with the music video because this photograph was taken on the same location. The location was dark and therefore the camera quality has dropped and there is a lot of noise on the photograph which I will need to edit in Photoshop.
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The first step I did to improve my image was to change the basic settings and the second thing was to turn up my sharping, for my masking I held down the alt key to sharpen just the important features like the eyes and too leave the noise. I then turned up the luminance to smoothen the noise and skin.
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Next I edited the eyes to make the sharp and stand out, I went on to filter then other, then High Pass, then I changed it too soft light and drew on top of the eyes too add high light and colour.
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I then added hue/saturation and chose a brighter blue colour and then used a curve to just draw the colour onto the eyes. I added a curve around the edges too darker then drawing all the attention towards the light. Next I drew on some of the flame light where it already was to enhance it, using the colour pick tool to select the flame coloour.
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I then added an effect on called soft warming to warm the photograph up even more. Also it adds to the soft light effect off the candle.
Bottom Photograph Edit
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First of all I opened this photograph because I wanted the trees in the background I thought that it added a more mystrious effect to help build up a background photograph.
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Next I opened a photograph of some water from the same shoot and used a layer mask to add it over the top of the trees.
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After that I added the colour look up ‘drop blues’ to blend all the colours together because the trees were too bright for the water.
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Then I added motion blur and used a white layer mask and drew on with black to just add the motion blur to the background and the edges of the water.
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After that I added the colour look up ‘late sunset’ to add the purple glow. I turned the opacity down to 30% on it so it’s not to overbearing.
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I added a white layer mask and drew on parts of the water with a black brush to remove the colour look up. This makeing parts look like they have lighter reflections, making the water look more realistic.
Putting Digipak Together
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Before I started putting my digipak together I made a template so I know where to put certain photographs or text.
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I then added the album cover where the front cover of the album would be.
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I then added my background photograph to the bottom, I had to change the image size on Photoshop to make it fit the bottom without being stretched.
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I then added a photograph from the park photoshoot I did which is from the same photo shoot the bottom photograph is from. I didn't change this other than adding a colour look up called soft warming because I used this on the other photographs therefore it makes all the photographs merge together.
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After that I added the top right photograph I already editted however I also added the colour look up soft warming to this to match the other photographs.
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Then I used the shape layouts on a 20% opasicty to make a CD shape for where the CD will go.
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Next I did the same using the shape layouts on a 20% opasicty to make a box for were writing will go so that it is clearer to read rather than the background being a distraction.
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Finally I added the lyric from her hit song in clear black writing, I also added a message in clear black writing from the artist so that the fans feel more connected to her.
By Jazmine Allen