Taylor Swift Digipak

I have decided to re - create the cover for Taylor Swift's cover 'Red'.

When I took my own image, I decided to use a lighting studio, so I could have a dark and clear background.

I needed to use PhotoShop to edit my images as when I took my image my lighting was slightly off, which made my image and tiny bit blurred. Also Taylor's original album has text over the image, so I would need to add this when I edit.

I used costume of a black hat and used a red lipstick for my makeup.

I first put my own image into PhotoShop

Because the image on Taylor's is quite small, I had to crop the image a few times. Firstly I decided to crop all of the excess black area that I did not need. After this I had to crop the image to make it more into a square shape. I tried to copy the original as much as I could, so this meant cropping the majority of the hat and the bottom section of my hair.

Looking at Taylor's cover again I could see that I would need to change the hue, saturation and lighting. To do this I clicked on the image tab, which then gave me the option to click on adjustments to change the image.

I decided not to change the hue on the image as it made my skin quite pale, and this didn't make the image look right.

I changed the saturation to +24. Due to Taylor's hair being blonde and mine being slightly bleached, I had to higher the saturation to bring the blonde out. This effect also made my red lipstick more bright and bold.

On Taylor's album cover she has a shadow underneath her hat. Because of the lighting I used I needed to change the lighting to -26 for the shadow to show up more.

This is what the image looked like after I had finished the adjustments.

I then added another layer to the image. I added the word 'red' as that's the name of Taylor Swift's album.

I then added both of the layers together, so the text would become the top layer. I did this by right clicking between both layers and then clicking on create clipping mask.

After clicking create clipping mask, the text then overlapped my image. I then could select a colour for the background.

To create the colour of the background, I used a paint bucket and a colour picker. This allowed me to get the correct colour for the album.

I looked at different colours for the album. I did this so I could try and get the best match of colour.

I added a final layer to add Taylor Swift's name to the front of the album.

This is my final album cover.