Digipak Back Page - Research & Editing the Photos

Firstly, I wanted to conduct a bit of research into what makes a back cover look professional.
I looked on google images for examples of good and bad back covers of other various artists.

Good examples;

Bad examples;

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During the photoshoot we had a good idea for the back page of our album where the tracklisting would be, we decided to make a 'frame' with our arms in a square shape and thought that the track names would look good inside.

This is the original photograph which we would then greyscale in the background to create continuity throughout the album design as our other photos have all had the same thing done.

This is how the picture turned out after being edited on photoshop so the background was greyscaled and the contrast, saturation and sharpness were increased slightly to give a more crisp and professional effect. Now we needed to crop it to a square shape to fit perfectly onto the real life blank digipak and add the tracklisting etc.