Post 4) DVD Cover ideas - 26/02/2014

I have been creating a new image of the Dragasus for ideas of the DVD cover, ideas that are seen in the image may be used in the final cover design.

I used the same lizard and background images as I felt that these where the best images to start with as they were the easiest to edit and the most familiar images. I used a different image for the wings to obtain a different effect.

As I wanted to make my Dragasus in a different colour from last time I knew that I would need to mess around with adjustments, because of this I needed to copy the lizard image so that I could cut out the log and place it over the original log in the lizard image. This has made it so that I could give the Dragasus and wings a new colour while the log remains unchanged.

With the Dragasus I needed to make the following adjustments: Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Colour Balance. Hue/Saturation was also used on the wings to match the body colour, all of this would make the Dragasus a more colourful character and stand out more.

In order to keep track of everything and for easier editing, I separate each image into their own layers as this would make sure that if any editing went wrong only a small part of image would be effected and easier to fix. The use of folders to group various layers together such as the wings and shadows made it easier for me to know where everything is.

In order to keep lighting detail to a minimum I decided to cut out part of the background and add a sky background which was rotated and recoloured to have clouds in the background but also to not hint at a proper time of day to effect the shadows with the recolour there to give a more fantasy feel to the image as well as to make other parts of the image stand out, for this I chose a shade of orange as it is opposite to blue in the colour wheel so they would stand out against each other.

I used the Quick selection and Magnetic lasso tool for selecting parts of the images to edit quickly and the Lasso tool for more detailed selection because of the level of detail the Lasso tool can give me.

The Brush tool was used to create the shadow effects while using Blending modes and different opacity percentages where used to give the different shadows different effects that they needed and finally the Smudge tool to make the wings blend into the body more to give this creature a more realistic feel.

(The images in this blog post are my property and unauthorised use is not allowed)