I found an image online, for this example I used a photo of The Beatles walking across a road.
In Photoshop, I created a new canvas in the size of an A4 landscape. I then created a new layer, and put in my photo of the Beatles. From this, I made the image the same size of the canvas by using the transform tool (cmd + T). Then I duplicated the layer, by clicking on the layer whilst holding CTL.
Then, I went to filters --> blur. From the different types of blur effects available, I chose to add a motion blur. This made my image look this this:
As I wanted the first two people to be in focus, I then clicked on the 'add vector mask' at the bottom of the layers panel. Switching the main colour to black, I took the brush tool and carefully outlined the figures which I wanted to be in focus. This is my final product:
Using this Photoshop practice, I created a mock CD cover for my genre of synthpop. This cover included many skills to create a final product which included a barcode, images in the style of our genre, neon green coloured writing for the track list and name of album/artist. These all fit the conventions of a synthpop CD cover - the images which I shot were influenced by previous covers which I analysed, including Crystal Castles and Ellie Goulding. I decided to use a black background, in order to place neon colours on top to make them stand out even more than they already would, fitting our genre. The tracklist included alternative song titles, which also fits my genre.
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