I have started putting together my digipak using photoshop. Getting my chosen pictures in is the first step, after looking how others look on the template to see if another image would be better i decided to go ahead with the ones i originally chose on my mock up. When placing the photos in i had problems getting them the right size because they were originally portrait so i had to crop the image then drag it onto the template and then enlarge it.
My next step was to begin putting effects on the image i started by adjusting the colour saturation and playing around with the different filters. I was having problems because whenever i got one of the images with the right colours which matched our genre i would find it difficult to create the same on the other image. After having more problems i decided to get on with the other aspects on the digipak and come back to the image last so i did not fall behind.
I then started on the text for the digipak, originally i planned to have two different texts for the artists name and album name. However after experimenting with different texts and seeing what they looked like next to each other i decided to use the same one on both. The text i chose is called 'Futura' it is different from the text i originally planned to use on my mock up i is more basic and clear and works better with a idea i wanted to use. For the artists name i duplicated the layer and changed the colour to white i then placed it under the original blue text so it acted as a shadow. The album name was then placed under the artists rather then in the bottom centre which i planned in the mock up, it suited the cover much more in this position. The text on the back of the digipak was in the same text as the cover and the same blue as the artists name, the position was not changed from the mock up and it was placed on the left hand side.
For the front panlel of the digipak i think i started well however i still had some problems to address. The images still had to have matching effects and to a standard that i was happy with, also i still had to include various logos and copyrights. I am also not sure what image to place on the spine at the moment i have made it the same colour as the text for the artist however it looks out of place and very plain.
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