Practice with Photoshop

 As I have to create an album digipack along side my music video, I decided to practice with photoshop before creating the real thing. Here is the original image that I took of the singer.

After taking this photo, I opened it in photoshop and used the rubber tool to delete the background of the photo. This left me with just the singer which I could then put onto any other background that I wanted.

As this was a practice, I went onto google and saved an image of a sunset. On my real album cover I will not do this as it will break copyright laws and all of the images I use need to be taken by me.

I imported the sunset image into photoshop wear I could then place the single image of the artist on top of the sunset. I adjusted the size of the person so that it fit into and looked realistic on the background of the sunset.

I then used a exposure tool that I ran over the top of the image of the singer that made the image darker. This helped to give the effect of shadow that would really happen if the person was in this surrounding. She is also too big to fit into the sunset image effectively.



Here is the final piece, as you can see it is not perfect. It does not look as if this is real as the singer has still got slight white edging surrounding her.

As a practice, this has been successful as I have learnt the main skills in how to use photoshop. I know how to remove a background from an image and how to insert one image on top of another.