Thursday, 10 January 2013

Production of Ancillary Products - Lesson 1

In lesson (09/01/13) I have started on creating my outside panels for the digipak, as well as working on image manipulation on Photoshop Elements. As I was doing this I made sure I took screenshot and asked people who was part of the target audience their opinions on how the images looked like that I manipulated and if the layout was good. As this was one of the things that I had that I was told to be careful and aware off, when getting feedback from Rebecca.

Collage of screen shots I took while using Photoshop




Here is one of the finished image manipulations. The viewer can see that the changes that I have done using Photoshop are:

BEFORE                                   AFTER
1. The lips are changed to a red colour
2. The dress is now a darker red colour
3. A chuck of loose hair is now gone from behind her neck
4. The hair is shinier
5. The skin tone is darker than the original skin tone

FEEDBACK
I have decided to leave the shadows on the neck, because when I asked people in the target audience if the changes that I made was better they said it wasn’t and also they said that the shadow under the chin isn’t very obvious and they didn’t made it there and they felt that the image would be better if I didn’t do any manipulations there, but they like the other changes that I have done to the image.

Also I will make the outline of the image on the digipak be blurred, by using the blur tool. This is because I made a mistake of doing it before hand and didn’t want to get rid of it because it made the outline of the hair line smooth and round, so I spoke to Rebecca (teacher) and she has recommended that I should make the outline around the image on the front panel image be all blurred.

Louisa has also suggested that I should move the image on the back of the digipak to reach the end of the side as it would look weird if the legs just cut off. This something I will do and keep in considerations, if I am unable to make the legs (end of image) fade out on Photoshop.

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