The decision was made that instead of just using photography to convey the meaning in the design instead some inspiration would be took from Tappin Goftons work for Everything Everything instead the photography will be put through a photo distortion technique to diversify the design from just only photography. As the song talks about the woman feature of the song just walking away and erasing herself from his life it was apparent to me that a pixelation effect should be used within the image to symbolise her failing out of his life for good, the rest of the photo is clear it is only the girl that is pixelated.
The image was placed in to photoshop on a 7" by 7" canvas so that it would fit for the size guidelines of the Secret 7" submission. The first stage was to duplicate the image in to a new layer above the original.
The layer in the background of the image is put through the filter gallery and put through a mosaic filter, that slips the image up in to tiny small pixel like squares, the square size is decided from the image itself so that the pixels are in proportion with the image and then the filter is added.
Next it was time to overlay the background pixelated image, with the unedited version of top and with the eraser tool, a selection of the top layer unedited image is erased so it allows the pixelated image from the bottom layer to show through, this gives the desired effect of a normal image for the majority of it, and the pixelation of the women showing through from the bottom image where the top image is erased. Preferably the use of a brush with no hardness at all so that there isn't a distinct line between the two different images instead the change is gradual.
The two different layered images are then merged so that they become one flat image so that they can be finalised in the final editing stage.
The next stage of the editing process was to add a small border along the right hand and base length and then the image is finalised with a vignette effect by overlaying a new layer on top of the imaged and erasing a large circle in the middle of it with no hardness so the vignette effect is gradual and then a small amount of opacity as added to make it less in your face.
Here below you can see a fully finalised and exported version of the design submitted to secret seven...
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