Replicating an Existing Digipak Front Cover.

 

This is the front cover photo of The Plain White T's album 'Hey There Delilah'. My task this week was to recreate it using Photoshop.

 

I started out by planning what the main parts of the image were and coming up with how I could recreate them using objects at my disposal (in school).

 

I used my plan, an photo copy of the original picture, a piece of A3 green paper and a sign I made to look like the one in the background of the image. 

 

 

This is the first photo I took, the boy on the far left needs to pull a more serious expression, as does the boy second-to-left. The boy in the middle needs to close his mouth and the boy on the far right needs to look at the camera and have a serious expression on his face.

 

Here is the second photo I took which I think came out really well. (the green paper is acting as the top of the pool table, and the orange bottle is meant to be a beer bottle).

 

 

 I then Photoshopped the picture in the following ways: tidying the boy on the far left's hair,cropping the whole image to tidy the background, extending the green coloured paper to make a long pool table, drawing the graffiti and paint marks on the wall and extending the wall colour to create a plain background and larger wall area.

I am proud of what I achieved in the picture as it looks quite like the one below. However, if I were to do it again then there would be a lot that I would change. I would put the boys in similar clothing to the band, print out the 'NO GAMBLING' sign, find an actual place with a rough-looking wall and a pool table, also I would need to find something that I could use as pool ques in the background. I would use a beer bottle instead of water and I would practise more on Photoshop as I had only ever used it once before this, and even then I only used the 'spot healing brush tool'. I would also give myself a lot more time to do it as I only had a limited amount of time to work with which is why the photo is very basic.

Below is a copy of the image so that you can compare the two.

 

 This is what the album cover actually looks like, in order to add the text I need to take another photo of traffic at night in the rain and put it behind the first photo. If I find some time/learn how to do this in the future then I will.