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Originally Posted by emiko
^The composition for the NEXT LEVEL covers is awful. The lines/shapes just dont fit very well. The text was messily placed, but that's because of the bad composition of the photos in the first place...the photoshop is also awful, and well, yeah, I guess it does "fit"...but she doesn't look THAT great.
I mean, I guess the outfit is fine, but I could definitely see how people would hate it.
For Secret, people complained about the photoshop again, the messy work, the star brush, and how it looks cheap, and I think in the full body cover, the photoshop again was like "wtf".
She looked good on that cover though...and the inside booklet is great.
So, mostly, I guess, it's the photoshop work by the art dept that ruins those covers for people.
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I think the total opposite about the NEXT LEVEL covers. The composition is so good.
Though at first I was shocked, her eyes looked so big in the 2CD+DVD version (the first cover that was revealed). And then the other covers came out and I thought, "damn... this surely is something lol".
But now, looking back I think perhaps those covers were out of time and space. They surely do not belong to this era, just yet lol. I think that in the future or even right now we can appreciate the value and how artistically daring they are, and at the same time so easily composed and following most of the rules of composition (shape, colour, etc).
The text was a bit misplaced, but really that's all I can complain about those covers.
I love her off-look facial expression, I love how fake she looks, I love how stupid dressed she might be, but aye, people who dare are the ones who are remembered. I'm sure that in 10 or 20 years, people are going to remember the covers of NEXT LEVEL and not the covers for HEAVEN, MOON / blossom and L.
EDIT: Anyway photography is art, and art is subjective.