7. To start off, I use automatic adjustments to correct the colour for me.
This is an easy fix as it can be quite tedious sitting and personally doing
it. It also means you can focus more on the features of the photograph
once the colours have continuity.
8. I used the manual tool of brightness and contrast to adjust how bright
and dark my photo was. This brought out her brunette hair and all the
yellow tones of her skin β making her look quite tanned. For my actual
Digipak, I used the desaturation tool to make her skin more neutral.
9. I also used the spot healing tool brush to airbrush her face. This is
conventional when creating media products as everything has to look
perfect and it also makes it look more professional.
10. I have also used the Burn and Dodge tool to define her eyelashes, lips and shadows on
her body and highlighted the streaks of blonde within her hair to give her a more
perfected look. I was able to use these successfully due to my AS Media Studies Music
Magazine where I learned how to edit photos.
12. First of all I downloaded a Polaroid template from Google. Then I opened my edited photo of
Lottie and dragged it onto the picture of the empty white polaroid. I positioned and re-sized the
image so it would fit in between the lines. I then created another copy of the polaroid and
placed it over the picture.
13. I then used the select tool to select where the box-shape of the template was to put your photo
and pressed delete. It then showed the image of Lottie underneath, making it look like a rea
polaroid. This was then easy to drag onto a background and add text. This was also done for the
polaroid of Erin too.
15. First of al I created a second layer of my CD template and then dragged my photo of
the tree onto it. As you can see, the Layer one is in-between these two CD layers,
enabling the template to show in front of the picture of the tree.
16. This then enabled me to rub out the surrounding picture around the template and make it look
like a real CD/DVD. This then made it easy to edit the background in and also add the CD/DVD
templates to make it look more professional. This was an easy-ay of creating a CD cover and
therefore would be easy to use for an independent to create visually-appealing products with a
low budget.