CD DigiPak

After taking the pictures in the studio I used Photoshop to edit my images to make them suitable for my CD cover. I used Taylor Swift and Beyonce's CD covers as inspiration as i liked there colour schemes. On Photoshop the first thing which i changed was the 'levels'. This makes the image colours more balanced and the correct colours from the lights etc. I find that i like to change them myself rather then use auto. As i can get the colours the way i want them for further editing. 

After changing the Levels, i then decided to use 'Curves' to help add brighter colours and make certain sections stand out more then other parts. I wanted to brighten her hair and the skin tone, this will help with the next step. As i chose not to have any shadows in this image, the curves sometimes changes the colour of the backdrop.

To get the image to the correct size to fit onto the cover, i used the crop tool. When i was cropping my image, i wanted to make sure it looked good, and the framing complimented the model too. I decided to keep the face in, as you can see the top of the head line too. 

To make her face look a bit more flawless i used to 'spot healing tool' to get rid of certain dark spots. it can also get rid of certain mistakes that the camera lens make. 

Adding the text is important for the front cover of the CD, as it defines what the song or the album is based around. The text is normally plain as if it was too over the top then it wouldn't connote the artist and her genre.