We're covering the process of taking a fished photograph and then manipulating it in Photoshop so that it can be used in the album artwork.

Part 4
Photoshop

In order to use these photos we needed to clean them up. As you can see the background is quite dark, yellow and uneven. By removing the background we could place the photos of us in any scenario / colour scheme etc that we wanted. This is a very long and pain full process using the pen tool to go around every single pixel of the outline of us. This was especially long for Alice's photo as she was wearing a cape with tassels. It was hours of work but absolutely vital to the finished product.

Next are the adjustment layers. A fairly crude way of explaining adjustment layers is to visualise the filters on Instagram. These are a collection of adjustments to the hue, contrast, brightness, colour balance etc. Photoshop has a huge suite of professional adjustments that can be made to photographs in order to get them exactly how you want. I took each photo and spent hours fine tuning them exactly how I wanted.

TOMORROW // PART FIVE // DESIGNING THE PACKAGING

// Part 1 covered the backstory of how we began the process of making our album cover //
// Part 2 covered finding the location and photographer //
// Part 3 covered getting the shot //