More Jack Rollins!

Jack Rollins' Kickstarter was fully funded and hit the stretch goal for having a physical copy printed.
I was asked to help with this again! He enjoyed my work for the kickstarter launch and asked if I could do some more with the image to make it look even more demonic. The original image was a Raw Jpeg, so I was able to manipulate it more than with a standard compressed Jpeg.

So taking the original image I made a few different versions for Jack's feedback.

<< I deepened the shadows slightly and tinted green

I tinted green and displaced the image completely >>

<< Using Liquefy after tinting green slightly, I began to draw out parts of the face to become more demonic.

Using the same process as before, but making sure parts weren't stretched out of detail. There's a tool which can draw back what you have done, which I found was great for reverting stretched detail. >>

In the end, this was the selected cover. It is set for the eBook version and I will be going back and resizing and resetting for the paperback version.

RAW Image Editing

So, the Nikon D5200 is capable of RAW image capture (sadly, no RAW video, though) so I decided to have a mess about in PS with a photo I took while out and about in Alnwick, my home town.

Original image

I wanted to contrast the original heavily, from the nice, relaxing, warm day that it was taken on to a more cold, oppressive scene. Bringing out the shadows really helped with this, plus giving the whole scene a blue tint conveyed the cold feeling

Tippy time!

Hand drawn picture of Tippy having a sleep, pencil on paper.

Playing with Photoshop, I turned Tippy into a laser-eyed, man-eating cat.