Pictures Taken for Covers and Inside Panels of my Digipak

I opted to take a range of different images against a blue background in order to give me a wider variety of editing options. If you look to the all the panels which I have created for the digipak in more recent posts you can see the changes which I have made.

In order to change my background I used the image editing software contained in the programme ‘Photo shop’. I used the magic wand tool to amend the blue background, it picks up mass areas of blue and makes it transparent, this speeds up the process and makes it a lot easier. Now I have to tidy up the areas close to the image and for this I use the lasso magnetic tool. It aids me to carefully follow the outline and eliminate any existing blue. To achieve maximum precision I then used the eraser to get into tiny gaps. To create a different background you create a new layer, select the brush tool and choose any colour you want then paint the entire picture. You don’t have to worry about painting over your original image because you simply drag the new layer below the existing one and it only changes the bits you have made transparent.