This is the picture we chose to have as our CD cover. We felt that her expression showed herself as a vulnerable young girl that people could relate to. When designing the poster we wanted bright, bold colours that would allow our album to stand out however we wanted to stick to one particular colour scheme so that all the pictures from the album would look like they link together. We knew we wanted the background completely solid black with a black and white image to match the back cover. We then thought we should make one facial feature stand out from the others; as the album was called contradictions, and the single expressed how she said something she regretted, we thought that making the lips stand out would suit the album's message the best.
The image above shows some stages of the editing process. The original image showed that there was hair over her neck so we wanted to edit that out as a cleaner image would look better. We also managed to even out her complexion and made the lips fuller.
We feel that from this the image is smoother and cleaner and is now easier to work with.
This was an experiment with different lip colour as we felt that red did not suit this quirky artist's image. But with the pink it seemed to be too childish. Instead we chose to use a purple that was a similar colour to the purple in the back cover's text. This creates continuity throughout the CD cover.
