Digipak - Edited Photos

Below are all of my edited photos for my digipak, split into chosen and rejected with explanations of why. I'm really pleased with the photos I have chosen, and although I really liked some of my edits I felt they were too over the top for my digipak.

My Chosen Edits:

The only edit I did on this photo was to sharpen it slightly in order to make the contrast more prominent as I feel the photo does a lot of talking by itself. Therefore, I didn't want to play around from it too much and take away from that.

I felt that seeing as my the other chosen photos for my digipak are black silhouettes on a coloured background I should revert this and have a coloured figure on a black background. I feel that my photo looks effective having done this as it contrasts to my other digipak photos, therefore preventing it from becoming boring. I chose to go for a reddy-pink as it is a colour that appears in my video, stopping it from appearing as random.

Similarly to my photo of the guitarist I chose not to edit this too much. Once again I sharpened it, as I did with all of my photos, and then increased the hue and saturation to make the blue slightly brighter than it was in the original to emphasis the contrast of the background and the silhouette.

For this photo I increased the hue and saturation in order to make it brighter and this has completely altered the colour in the bottom right image. However, I feel that the brighter colours look much more effective and eye-catching which are key when you are creating a product you are trying to get consumers to buy.

Here I chose to go for something completely different. I felt that my photos were becoming too "samey" and as I've said on my drummer's edit I don't want my digipak to become boring. Therefore, here I chose to add "Water Lines" but edited it so that they were very close together, thus creating the above effect. I feel this effect works well as it is a contrast to the rest of my photos and interesting to the eye.

This photo is the one I have chosen to be placed on the back of my digipak where the song names will be. Originally I was just planning on having a plain black background but following further consideration I decided that would be too boring and I needed to do something more creative. Therefore I decided to take my photo of the drummer, put it all in black and white and then invert it around a central point. I feel this looks so much better than a plain black background, although, in order to place it on my digipak I will have to crop it so I will have to consider which part to do so.

My Rejected Edits:

As soon as I edited this photo I automatically knew it would be rejected as instead of looking bright and eye-catching the drummer looks like Shrek which makes it incredibly unappealing! 

Although this is the effect I use on my chosen bassist edit, I felt that as the singer was already mirrored it was too much having this effect on it as it may hurt people's eyes as they look at it too long. Also, in my opinion, it looks confusing and messy which isn't what I'm hoping for in my digipak.

Although I really liked this effect at the beginning, at the end of the day it doesn't fit in with the rest of my digipak photos and the style of my digipak at all. I don't want to include a "random" photo just as I like it and although it does fit in with my house style of split screens I feel that having already included one that will be enough for a smaller product.

This was 100% my favourite edit. However, as with the previous photo it just doesn't fit in with the style of my digipak at all and it would look ridiculous on my product.