Scorpio Season Cover Artwork

Creative composite

A single studio pose becomes a cover layout with a built creature, a cast shadow and display type set into the composition.

Composite
Cover art
Typography

Service: Advanced Creative Photo Editing & Manipulation

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The same figure in a cover layout with a large composited scorpion and display type — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Reclining studio pose on plain white seamless — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Project overview

A cover has to work as a layout, not only as a picture. The capture is a reclining pose on white with no negative space reserved for type and no anchor at the bottom of the frame.

Transformation details

The figure was repositioned within a larger canvas first, so the type had a real place to live rather than being dropped onto the picture afterwards.
A creature was built beneath at a scale that reads immediately at thumbnail size, and given a hard cast shadow to place both it and the subject on the same floor.
The type was set into the composition — overlapped by the subject where they cross — so it belongs to the image rather than sitting above it.
The grade stays close to neutral, because a cover competing with its own type is a cover nobody can read.