skills development

How to turn images black and white.

Colour Splash

Choose the colour you want to keep

Select inverse to pick everything else but the colour you have chosen to make the colour stand out against the black and white.

To make the colour brighter and more vivid you can increase the hue, saturation, brightness and contrast.

Metal front cover- brushes, transform, bevel

I changed the background colour to pink as the font I chose was very girly and elegant. I did this by selecting the fill button (1) and then chose the colour I wanted (2)

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I got this text from www.dafont.com but I had to make the background transparent as it was originally white. I did this by going to select ,colour range, select the white background, clicked ok and then pressed the delete button on my keyboard and then you are left with same writing but without the background.

I made all the layers visible and put the writing on top so it can be seen. You can use effects on your text by going to edit, transform and there are many different things to choose from such as warp, distort and skew.

I went to http://www.psbrushes.net/ and chose a brush that I wanted to use and downloaded it. I then chose the eraser and then went up to the brush panel and scrolled down until I found the brushes I downloaded.I chose the size I wanted the hearts to be and began clicking on the text to create this effect.

I doubled clicked the text layer and it came up with this ‘layer style’ box. I ticked the Bevel & Emboss box to choose what kind of style and depth I wanted for my text.I clicked ok for it to save the effect.

I selected the photo I wanted to use as my CD front cover and dragged it from my pictures onto the Photoshop document and stretched it to the size I wanted so it would fit the whole cover.

CD cover

I then went on to edit the text that I wanted on my CD cover. Once again I had to make the background transparent and I also wanted to change the colour of the text so it would stand out against the dark background. I did this by clicking the fill icon and picking the colour required which in this case was white.

After I had made the text white I made both the layers visible and put the text layer on top of the image layer so the text would be visible.

CD back cover

I selected the photo I wanted to use as my CD front cover and dragged it from my pictures onto the Photoshop document and stretched it to the size I wanted so it would fit the whole back cover.

I then put the artists name in the top corner.

I inserted a text box and picked a suitable font for the track listings.

I then went online to find a record company's logo to use on my back cover. I then inserted it onto my back cover and resized it so it was small and was able to fit into the bottom corner.

I inserted another text box at the bottom for the credits and rights and regulations

I went online to make my own barcode and then inserted it onto the back cover.