2. Myself and Josh worked on this project. We used Photoshop for the whole process as we found that it was the
most useful and effective program to use. Here I will be going through the stages that we went through to get
the finished product and the techniques and tools we used and how useful we found them.
3. Step 1
We knew we wanted to use a rose as the main image from the beginning as it would be a good
link to the digipack and had become the image of our band. So we began by finding the same
image from Google that we used on the Digipack. We then placed the image at the center of the
frame as it was going to be the main image.
4. Step 2
We found
these two
functions very
useful as they
allowed us to
easily change
the nature of
the rose in
only two steps
which would
have been
impossible in
any other
program.
We then began to play with the saturation and colors of the rose in order to try and emulate the
effect we had on the rose in the digipack. We began by creating a new layer and creating a glow
effect, which we overlayed onto the rose to give it a slight pallid, ethereal glow. This gave the rose
color and vibrancy which caught the eye even though we toned down its natural colors. We then
used the curve and color properties functions to tone down the natural colors of the rose and make
it look unnatural and dead looking, in order to convey the general tone of our music which is a love
that’s died totally.
5. Step 3
The next step was adding the paint splats which we got of Brusheezy.com. We changed
the color of these to black, which is a typical rock color. We placed these messily all over
a new layer and inserted that beneath the rose, which gave the whole poster a more
chaotic effect, which is typical of rock. The reason we placed them the way we did was to
create a messy feel, like an explosion, to the poster which we figured would appeal to the
fans and is quite a common theme on the original bands artwork.
We found that this stage didn't’t need to many
functions, but the layering system for Photoshop
was really useful in making the poster look
seamless and like one image.
An unforeseen effect that the background color
on the rose had was that it carried over to the
paint splats around the rose, giving a similar
effect and making the whole image seem more
seamless.
6. Step 4
For the final stage of the creation process, still in Photoshop, we had to add the essential information
like the title, date of release and contact info. For the title we took our inspiration from a Jessie J
magazine ad as we thought it was classy and eye catching and fit in with the rest of the font. From the
image below you can see we used effects like stroke and gradient overlays to get the golden colour.
The Band title was inspired by Ben on the digipack as we thought it looked quite cold and sharp which
fitted with the band. The twitter hashtag is the genuine You Me at Six twitter page and we knew that
Virgin Records were their records company so it was natural to include them.
We thought that the font effects on Photoshop were very useful as it allowed us to recreate almost exactly the font
on the Jessie J cover. Overall Photoshop has been extremely useful in creating the ad as after some difficulty in
finding where functions were once we knew it became easy and simple.
