Album Cover

As part of our digipack, we had to create a front cover for our band. This section of the digipack, I had the most input in as it required a lot of photo manipulation in photoshop and in our group I am the most experienced with this software. To create this, I had to extend the height of the wall from the original photograph. In the original, the wall was cut off by windows that, if were in the final edit would have got in the way with the band logo and the name of the album. I remove the windows I used the clone stamp tool to sample areas of the wall that were complete and replaced the windows with the wall texture that had been sampled lower down in the image. I also added a RBG colour filter over the image to alter the amounts of red, green and blue in the image. I lowered the amount of green over all as our band's image relies mostly on purples and reds.

To create the spray paint effect on the logo and album name behind use. I wrote the words in a text layer, white for the logo and black for the name and put them behind us. To make the 'Amplify' appear as if it was behind the band members, I cut us out using the pen tool to mark us out, duplicating is and pasting a version of us over the top of the amplify layer. I then rasterized the text layers to image layers and turned them the layer style to multiply. This makes them clear and increases the brightness of them. I then  duplicated the layers to exaggerate this effect and added a guassian blur to them to make it look like it had been air brushed. I then merged the layers back together and with an erase tool with a 15% opacity, erased bits of the words to make it appear faded and seem like it had been spray painted onto the wall some time ago.