Photoshop Double Exposure Practice (DigiPak Design)

-Coming Up With A Digipak Idea-

As a group, we couldn't decide what format we wanted to go about creating our digipak in. We knew that for it to be successful we had to create something that looked stunning but also had synergy with the themes shown in our actual product. We planned out a template, shown in a different blog post of what we wanted the CD case to look like - using shots from our video as the synergy. However, I didn't believe it had a really attractive 'kick' to it, as we had just recycled already used images. So, as any budding creator does, I headed over to Pinterest. There I found a pin about double exposure in Photoshop, where you can replace a face with a background and then blend the face back in to create a sort of fade. I realised this would be perfect for our tour/CD poster, if we included the lead singer, but could also be used for the face parts of our CD case (using the lead singer and his boyfriend character). I researched how to do on Youtube and got straight to the practical elements - creating it myself. 

-The Painful Creation Process-

As shown in the video at the top of this post, it took me a while to get the hang of the techniques shown in the tutorial. Firstly I grabbed a stock image of Evan Peters and a Fire Image that we have gained the right to use through our creation process. I then began editing as shown in the video. The outcome shown there wasn't quite up to my standard as I struggled with separating the image from the background and instead used a rubber to outline it, which made the hair circular and not lifelike. As a result of this, I redid the whole process, paying closer attention to the background separation using layers shown in the tutorial and came up with the final product shown below. As a group we have decided that this is what we want to use for our Digipak, so it was a good use of our time to create this mock-up.