Front Cover of Digipak

I started my editing process by opening my image to PaintShop Pro X4. I then zoomed in to start the actual editing process itself. The first and main thing that I started with was the editing of the blemishes on my image. This is so that the image looked clear on my digipak.

To edit the blemishes on my image I clicked on the make up tool and selected blemish fixer. I then began the blemish fixing process, trying to make the skin of my image look as perfect as I could.

Because I wanted the eyes to be one of the main things to stand out on my digipak, I then used the eye drop tool to make the blue of my eyes to look more vibrant.

For the next section of my editing process I then used an online application on the website fotoflex.com. Here I began the main editing section of my digipak, I decided to use this website because I wanted to use one of the effect on here that I found interesting. To work this application I simply had to upload my image onto the website and then I was able to use all of the editing tools neccesary.

To get to the editing section of the website, I had to click the effects tab and then I selected the effect called colour splash. With this effect it converted the whole image into black and white and I was then able to select which sections of the images that I wanted to keep at their original colours. 

Once I had done this, it was then time to start the selection process, for this, it offered for you to be able to edit the size of the brushes for the editing process, so that you were able to get every aspect of the colour that you required.

As you can see from the image above the eye section of the image is in colour and the rest of the section is in black and white, whilst at this process I then thought the red lips would look effecting to be in colour, this is because I thought it would go effectively with the colour scheme that I have chosen for my digipak.

As you can see I did the same process with my lip editing but I have to reduce the size of the brush because of the smallness of the area that I am selecting.

Once I had completed the editing process on Fotoflex, I then saved the image to my computer and re-opened it back onto Paintshop Pro X4. I decided that I wanted to edit the brightness of my image, to make it look more effective.

The brightness level that I selected for my image is 25. I wanted to edit the brightness of the image to make it more clear and to make the main attributes i.e the eyes and the lips standing out more to the audience.

The next thing I wanted to do to the editing process of my image was to make it more sharp, I did this by selecting the sharpening tool. I wanted to do this to make the features sharper and stand out more clearly.

Once I had completed this section I then decided that I needed to crop the image, because the height of it were too long for my digipak cover. So for this I selected the crop tool available on Paintshop Pro and cut the image down to a square shape.

This is the final image that I have chosen for my digipak cover. For the back of the digipak I have chosen to use a black and grey vintage background ground with the font in white. I have chosen to do this because of having the image on the front cover of the digipak I thought it would be too much if I had too much on the back of the digipak, I will also use this pattern on the inside disc section of the digipak.

Because I am working separately on my ancillary tasks I have decided to use a different font to the one that I had previously chosen with my group. The font choice that I have looked into using is Baskerville Old, and I will be using it with the caps lock on.