Creation of DigiPak

Creation of Digipak

When creating our Digipak I began by first editing the photographs of the band. I first removed the original background so that the background was left plain. I then created a duplicate layer and a new layer which I sandwiched between the original layer and the duplicate. Onto my new layer I pasted the background that was used in our advert and used the colour replacement tool in order to change the colour depending on the band member (William = Blue, Nazz = Pink and Northey = Orange). I then used the eraser tool on the duplicate layer in order to bring the edited background to the forefront. I did this easily by using the Magic Wand Tool to select the white section of the image and then used the eraser to remove it without removing any of the image of the band member. I then used the eraser tool on it's own to tidy up the edges of the image so that there were no white patches left and to allow the image to fit better with the background. I then brightened the image up and de-saturated it slightly to give it a more grunge-y feel and finally included the Dry Brush filter (altering the brush size and brush detail) in order to give the image a more matte appearance.

 

Following this, I saved each image of the band as a JPEG file and arranged it onto a Digipak draft in order to gain the correct placement of each image. To create the front cover, images of the band were layered over each other and then faded so that they appeared as background images and the main image of the band fighting was in the foreground. The band's name was then placed at the top in a black font so that it would stand out against the background images. We used the same font from the advert so that consistency was present throughout our products. This was then placed onto the Digipak and I began to create the back of the digipak. To create this, I used the same background as the band photographs but this time I changed the colour to black. I then used the Horizontal Text tool to add the tracks (which were chosen by everyone in the group) as well as the Copyright Information at the bottom, which we used examples of other Digipaks to compile. I then added our logo to the bottom left corner and added a barcode which I found on Google Images to the bottom right corner of the image in order to give our Digipak a more professional appearance. To create the disk space I used the same background again - this time entirely purple - and created a new layer, pasting the inside of a CD case and altered the opacity so that it looked as though there was a plastic cover over the background. Finally, I added spines to the Digipak which I simply coloured in black using the paintbrush tool and added the name of the the band and the album using the font Helvetica in white. I originally used the Horizontal text tool in order to write these but then rotated them and lined them up with the spine of the Digipak.