Album Cover Development #4, (Digital Manipulation)

I have taken a few of my album concepts that I like, and scanned them into Adobe Photoshop to use digital manipulation to 'enhance' the images, and tweak such aspects as the colour, sharpness, and the contrast.

For all of the illustrations, I went into the colour settings, adjusting the CYMK of each image.


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Concept #1



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For this image, I manipulated the CYMK settings of the colour.

I changed the black background into a purple shade, which as a result also smoothed out the pen strokes, making the colour more solid.

I really like this manipulation, as the purple still matches the night theme, and I love how it has given the eye more definition.

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Concept #2

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I exaggerated the levels of Cyan in this edit, which changed the colours in the background from the original yellow and blue.




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Concept #3

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The original colour of the image was black and white, and through manipulation I was able to change this into red and white.

This edited version makes me think of the themes of  love, and danger.
Something which red is often the symbol of.

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Concept #4


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Originally this illustration contained no colour, however with the magic of Photoshop, I was able to add a level of colour to the image.

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Conept #5

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By tweaking the colours of the image, I was able to change all the colours of the eyes.
For example, green becomes a shade of yellow, blue a shade of pink, and brown becomes a bit darker, with a hint of red.


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Concept #6


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I really like the outcome of some of these concepts. I think I will use Photoshop as a tool, to work toward my final front cover design, which will influence my back cover design.

I am working on my back cover after the creation of my front cover, so I can focus on one design at a time.
Of course the back cover will have the same theme as the front, and once both of them are completed, they will be 'stitched' together using photoshop.

I created this concept above, as a mock up of how a digitally manipulated design would look like next to typography.
This sketch is just a concept, so it may not appear like this, however it shows a good example of how Photoshop can be used to manipulate the illustration, and with the square shape of the image, as well this resembles what a final album cover may look like.









Thomas.