2. InDesign dimensions
• In order to make a conventional digipak I first
needed to find the dimensions of a real
digipak and disk to replicate in my project.
• From my research I found that the entire size
of the digipak was 432 x 125 mm (432 x 250
mm as inside and outside shown as separate
entries) and the disk was 116 mm wide and
the inner circle was 24 mm wide.
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7. • To start with I created a document the size of
the digipak I was going to create on
photoshop (432 x 125 mm)
• Then filled the whole area in black
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10. • I then added a noise filter at 120% and added
Gaussian blur at 0.3 pixels
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15. • Then to remove a majority of the noise I
adjusted the levels turning sliding up the black
input.
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18. • I then replicated this process to add more of
the stars before erasing along some lines to
make it appear that there were clusters of
stars before adding lens flares to simulate
brighter stars.
23. • I then added a noise filter to the rectangle
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26. • Then by using the one pixel marquee tool I
selected a one pixel tall segment of the noise
filled rectangle.
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28. • Then by using the transform tool stretched the
one pixel tall bar to an appropriate size before
removing a section on the bottom to put the
numerical data that accompanies barcodes.
31. • To create the planet on the disk I first created
a sphere and added an appropriate texture.
Then using the clone stamp tool filled the
sphere with the texture to make it look like a
planet.
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33. • Then to create an atmospheric glow I created
a new layer (duplicating the initial one) and
added inner and outer glow using the layer
style section in the layer menu.
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36. • I then added a black sphere to simulate the
shadow seen for example on the moon when
it appears in its crescent state.
• I added Gaussian blur to the sphere to blend it
in with the planet before adjusting the
contrast of the image to bring out the orange
in the image to show a starker contrast
between the planet and the blackness of the
background.
40. Firstly I removed
the background of
the image I wanted
to use of the artist.
Replacing it with
black using the
magic wand tool
and the paint brush
tool for the small
details
41. I then adjusted the
levels to create a
vaster contrast
from the bright and
dark portions of the
image. I then
repeated this
process with the
image of the child
and put them both
on the digipak
46. • The first thing I didi was insert the images that I
had manipulated in photoshop onto the pre
made digipak frame
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50. • I then added the written texts such as the
track listing in an arc across the planet/disk,
the legal and label information on the outside
edge and the album info on the front.
