L03 Editing Process

I tried to get as many print screens as possible throughout the project as I felt that it would help me roll through the project better. So this blog has become like a diary of my digital work throughou this entire project and has proved a very useful point of reference.

The first thing that I did with my unedited images way to change the brightness and contrast so that they could all fit in with the dark , electronic format that can be see throughout the Digipak and booklet.

One I was happy with the main properties of the image and how it looks I began to add my text layers in , I centered all of the text , put it in bold , and enlarged it as I wanted each side of the Digipak to be filled with about %75 text with the background just creeping through.

Font : Blackout Std

Font Size : 150

 

After experimeting with many different fonts and getting opinions from other members of the class I decided to stick with this one because it seemed to best suit the format of my Digipak , so I made sure to make a note of it as I knew I would need this information later on in my project in the final stages of the editing process/

Once I was happy with the typography I began applying new filters

to the text and the background images such as ripple effects , lens flares ...

Once I was happy with the finished project and had made a few tweaks using effects and adjustment tools I merged all the layers together by clicking the flatten image button which can be found by right clicking your'e background in the layers menu.

 

One of the first things that I did with every image was to adjust the brightness and contrast so that each image was better suited to the Digipak.

 

Brightness and contrast is an incredibly important thing to bare in mind when it comes to any kind of photography , digital design or graphic work as different brightness's and contrasts provoke different emotions in people.

 

 For example the dark makes people thing of scary , evil , creepy things which is why a lot of rock and metal artists use them where as dance music tends to use alot of really bright , postive colours that you would associate with upbeat music.

 

It is also sometimes neccesary because text layers can sometimes not work to full effective if their placed on the wrong colours.

 

The original image was far too bright for me to place white text on but I wanted to maintain the format and decided that i would keep the white text , consequently this meant that I would have to lower the brightness and tweak the contrast so that the text came through properly and you could still make out the background.