DW: Digipak development

• The digipak and poster are also in production, this image shows the current stage of the digipak front cover, with the official Hospital Records text and logo, the image below that shows the earlier stages of this design. To manipulate every picture into the required place, style and shape etc. I used a range of techniques. For example the magic wand tool helped me a lot, and the "levels" and other feautures under the adjustments tab were also important to give me the desired colours and textures. 

This image shows the digipak cover in the earlier stages, we liked the fact that the hospital record logo was on fire as we felt it related to the song - HOT fuzz. Photoshop also allowed us to try different images, colours and ideas easily via the use of layers which made the process more time effective and also made it easier to choose suitable visuals. The fire coming out of the central image spreading to the outside of the record was originally a picture of a sun. I cut and erased the harsh edges of the picture to make it more natural, I then altered the opacity to make it blend more, as well as using the blend and smudge tools to blend it into the record further. Lastly I altered the colour curves to make it more subtle and fitting.