This document describes edits made to an image to create an album cover, including: - Changing the lipstick and background colors and increasing saturation. - Adding pink hearts but feeling it didn't fit existing album styles. - Trying different fonts and colors for the text. - Adding elements like a parental advisory sticker and track listing to conform to album conventions. - Designing additional elements like discs and digipak images, adjusting colors and effects.

2. This is my image in colour after editing this
by changing the colour of my actress’
lipstick; brightness and shadows as well as
increasing the saturation to make the red
background look more vibrant.
This is the image in black and white with a
pop of colour in the lipstick. This idea came
from Rick Ross’ (hip hop artist) album
cover which the image was black and white
with bursts of colour.

3. I chose to make this image look a little
more girly by changing the lipstick colour
from blue to purple and adding pink
hearts around the image however I felt as
though this did not look as conventional
as existing album artwork by Beyoncé. I
also added red to the word ‘hype’ written
on the shirt to give it more colour.
This effect makes the image look
posterised by brightening some areas. I
liked this however did not feel as though
it came across as a ‘sassy’ image which I
wanted to go for.

5. ORIGINAL IMAGE

6. I have used the tools below to enhance the look of the original
image before applying font and other images.

7. Here, I have added white text in
the font style ‘Bebas Neue’ free
from www.fontsquirrel.com.
After importing the image I used
the magic wand tool to remove
the white background so only the
letters were left.
I then added this pink text in the
font style ‘Bebas Neue’ also and
used the warp tool in order to
adjust the look of the image. I liked
the idea of pink and white because
they contrast and are girly colours,
also the capitals reinforce the
attitude theme.
In order to conform to the
conventions of existing albums I
added the parental advisory
image to the bottom left of the
album. This is because some of my
scenes are categorised as suitable
for an audience above 15 yrs old.

8. I initially was going to use the same font for my artist’s name as the title of the album however
after receiving feedback it was most preferred by my peers to use the font style to the right which
is ‘Always in my heart’ from www.dafont.com.
Here, I have changed the text on my
album name from white to red
however I preferred the white colour.

9. I made a rectangular
shape and filled it with
pink colour. I then
added the font to
make my sticker seem
more realistic.
I didn’t realise that I
was writing ‘Flawless’
which is the album
name therefore had to
change this to ‘Feeling
Myself’ by Nicki Minaj.
Nicki Minaj is a friend
of Beyonce’s and she
has featured in the
song Feeling Myself
with Nicki too which is
why I specifically
chose this song to
feature on the sticker
and on the track list.

12. This disc was an image of a dome which I took at a
park. I have edited the image to make look more
vibrant and increased the contrast. To make the
shape of the disc I used the rubber tool to erase the
image on the outside of the circle as well as the
polygon lasso tool to cut round the circle’s edges.
The 2nd disc (DVD) is the image from my front cover
however I have cloned this so that it blended nicely
on the disc’s shape. I also increased the vibrancy on
this image using ‘image’- ‘adjustments’- ‘vibrancy’.
The image above for my
digipak is up-side-down due to
the layout for printing however
this is a shot I have taken from
my music video featuring my
actress’s body against the
Hollywood lit background from
footage which I got at a
concert. I played around with
the image adjustments to
make this look better and
more colourful.

13. Firstly, this image was in a hallway
which the wallpaper and carpet
where on sow so I used the quick
selection too l to erase the parts I did
not need so that I was left with the
body.
I then used the liquify tool in
Photoshop to adjust the actress’
body shape. I dragged out the shape
of the bum so that it looked more
plump and round like Beyoncé's and
I made the waist look smaller too. I
did not feel as though this looked
professional enough to feature on
my digipak as the body looked
unrealistic therefore I stuck to the
original image with a nice effect and
placed it onto a black background.

14. This is the image from the
previous slide underneath
my track listing. I have
changed the hue and
saturation to make the
image look purple and red
however the red clashed
slightly and it is harder to
see what the image is
behind the font.
This image underneath my
track listing is another
which I have edited as
inspired by Demi Lovato’s
album ‘Confident’. This is
more purple to suit the
colour scheme I have used
throughout. This image
looked like it needed
something else so…
I combined both images
under the track listing
which seemed to be the
most preferred image
overall.