This document describes the process of editing an image to create album artwork. Changes included adjusting the lipstick color and brightness, increasing saturation, and adding pink hearts and text. Feedback indicated a more conventional style was needed, so the image was altered to look more like Beyonce's album artwork by adding parental advisory text and choosing different fonts. A track list and sticker with the song "Feeling Myself" were also added to complete the album design.

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.

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.