Friday, 13 November 2009

Practicing Editing Effects In Photo Shop

I wanted to practice my editing skills on Photo Shop so when we came to doing our CD cover it would look like the other CD's released by The Feeling. I played around with a CD cover image by Pendulum. I chose this picture because i liked the complexity and detail of the picture, I wanted to see what effect editing would have on such a complex picture.

< Original picture
< On this picture I used a pixilating effect as i thought it would look really good. I like the way the pixels break up the picture but you can still make out what the picture is.

< Next I used a wave effect, as you can see it has worked quite well and brings out the vibrant colours in the cover. I like the way the ripple has shuffled the picture but how its still interesting to look at.

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I then used a Dry Brush effect, which has turned out almost perfect to what I imagined it to turn out like. I like the way the effect has changed the picture and made it look sort of cartoon like. This is the kind of effect that I wanted to create as it’s the same effect that The Feeling used in some of their past single and album covers. If I were to use this picture in any final piece I would think about changing the colours after I did the original effects as the vibrant image turned out darker and more shaded that it has come out in other effects I did.

> I used a Small Brush effect which has given the picture a slight blur, this makes it hard to read the writing and tell what the picture actually is. Even though the effect didnt turn out the way I wanted to I still like they way it has ended up, i like the way it looks almost bumpy due to the smuge and brush strokes.

> This was the last effect that I used, I decided to darken the colours in the vibrant cover and then inject it with a hint of purple. I like the way that the purple looks between the roots of the cover. Although i may not use this effect when editing my CD cover, its still useful to know how do change the colours of a picture so in case I need to I can.

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