Digipak Photoshop:

I have taken one existing album cover and developed it by using different effects within Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

Here is the original copy of the album cover, The Wombats - Modern Glitch:

I then used the 'Filter' tool within Photoshop to create many different effects of this image; some change simply the colour variations of the image, but some of them alter the entire effect, of these most turn out to be successful.

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The previous images show the 9 different effects I tried out, my favourites from this task are 5, 7 and 8.

I think number 5 with the embossed effect puts a whole new twist on the original image, with the main colour scheme being grey it appears duller but the visual effect of the indents and raised sections distracts  the eye from the plain colour.

Numbers 7 and 8 are my favourites for similar reasons, the band name font is still readable in both images but the album name not so much - this would have to be altered if I used this effect on my final design. The images are still clear enough to see but the edit makes the cover look edgy and interesting rather than a plain photograph or drawing. The brightness of the sky in the image and the clothes that the models are wearing stand out a lot more in these edits as the colours merge together more; I really like  these effects and I am considering using these on smaller sections of my work for example on the background but not any foreground images so that they are still clear to the eye.