Digipak Progress (Silhouette work)

For the silhouette shots I was aware I had to make it easy to see that it was a boy and girl (to represent the Oh Wonder duo). Therefore I made the girl wear a dress and have her hair flowing, whilst I made my hair stand out and wore jeans etc. so that in the silhouette we'd be easily distinguishable. 

I also experimented with several photographs (below is a sample) because I was unaware which photos would look best as silhouettes. In one of these shots we created O W (Oh Wonder) using our hands, and I have now decided to use this for my front cover as it looks very effective as a silhouette.

Initially I was unsure how I'd be able to create the silhouette effect for my front and back cover. I wanted to create a matte black silhouette and experimented with PowerPoint to see if this would be possible to achieve on there. 

I discovered that despite giving a reasonable silhouette effect, PowerPoint didn't provide the mat black effect that I required as it still showed our faces, and I felt this would detract from my simplistic pure black silhouette concept so decided to use Photoshop as it is designed for editing photos so was more likely to have the tools necessary.

Using the 'quick selection' tool in Photoshop I could easily remove the background and I also used the tool to highlight the individual parts of the photos that I wanted to turn black. After highlighting the parts I right clicked and selected fill and change the 'contents use' to 'black' with 100% opacity and this gave the matte black silhouette effect.