The document describes the process of creating various ancillary materials for a music album, including a digipak, poster, and inside covers. Key steps involved using Photoshop and Publisher to design templates, crop and edit images, add text using various fonts for consistency, and combine elements together. Templates and assets were reused across materials to maintain cohesion. The goal was to promote a fictional artist and album with a theme of innocence and loss through the visual design elements and layouts.

1. The Making of
My Ancillary
Texts

2. Front Cover

3. Using Microsoft Publisher I used
the shape tool to make the
background for the front cover
of my digipak. To do this I used
the shape tool to create a
square which I used the
proportions on the digipak
template to make sure it was
the correct size. I did this by
converting the inches featured
on the template and converting
them to centimeters on google. I
then used the paint bucket tool
to change the colour of the
square to black as I knew this
was the colour I wanted to back
of the front cover to be. I then
saved the square as an image
and opened it in Photoshop so
that I could begin creating my
front cover.

4. For the image I used on my
front cover I took some
pictures of Danny who’s
playing my performer in my
music video. I had decided I
wanted my front cover to
feature an image like that of
Sam Smith’s ‘In the Lonely
Hour’ so I took my picture
taking inspiration from that. I
inserted my image in
Publisher to crop it so that it
would be the right size to fit
inside the black square I was
using for the background. I
then saved the image and
opened it in Photoshop
before adding it on top of
my background.

5. After placing my image in
Photoshop I used the
black and white tool on
Photoshop to change my
picture to black and
white. After this I changed
the opacity of the black
and white layer to 75% in
order to change the tint
on the picture to match
the tint found on all other
parts of my digipak and
poster as I found it looked
good and added some
uniqueness to my piece as
black and white could be
seen as unoriginal.

6. For the text I went on the website dafont.com and
found a font I thought would work for my front cover.
The font I chose is Atlantic Cruise. I typed in the words I
needed and print screened the webpage and pasted
it in Photoshop. I cropped the picture and removed
the background with the magic eraser tool and
placed it on my front cover. I then used the paint
bucket tool to change the colour of the text to yellow
as I believed this would be the best colour to contrast
with the black background and the tint on the image.

7. Back Cover

8. To begin my back cover I took the black square
I had previously used for my front cover. I also
copied the name of my album from my front
cover, changing the size so that it would fit at
the top of my back cover. To add the track list I
again went to dafront to find a font I believed
would look best for my album track list. I
decided to use the same font I had used for my
front cover, Atlantic Cruise. I believe this worked
well to create a cohesion between my piece. I
also decided to do this with the track numbers
and the bonus disc title which I used the same
font for both of them but a different one from
the track list as a way to separate it from the
messages of the album. The font I chose for this
one is This is Me which has an appearance of a
child's hand writing which is something I wanted
because of innocence often being associated
with children.

9. Like with the front cover I cropped around the image
before using the magic eraser tool to get rid of the
white background. I then used the paint bucket tool
to change the texts colour to white and then copied
it onto my back cover. I used the shape tool to add
the line between the numbers and song titles as well
as under the bonus disc title
Crop Tool
Magic Eraser
Paint Bucket
Shape Tool

10. I then knew I needed to add the logo of the record
company I had chosen to represent my artist as
well as a barcode. To do this I found an image of
both of them on Google and saved them. I then
opened them in Photoshop and if needed I
removed the background with the magic eraser
tool. I then copied them onto my back cover and
positioned them where they world be found on a
conventional back cover. I then used the text tool
to add the copyright information and the artists
website address at the bottom of the page
Text Tool

11. Inside Covers

12. To make each of the inside covers I used dafont
again to get the font. Each time I again used the
font This is Me as I like it for the numbers and
thought it could be used to similar effect for the
song lyrics I wanted to include on the inside covers.
I decided to use song lyrics as I found that a lot of
the songs I had chosen to include in my track list
had lyrics that were uplifting and worked well with
the theme I was going for with my album. I then
added the images to the inside covers to create a
polaroid kind of effect like that seen on Taylor
Swift’s 1989 album. To do this I used the image I
had used for my poster in order to create a
cohesion between the two. I also used an image
of the location of the artists performance to create
cohesion between the digipak and the music
video. To get both of these images be the size I
wanted for my digipak, I again had to crop them
so that they fit correctly. I also again added a
black and white effect to the images and lowered
the opacity so that they appeared to have a
brownish tint.

13. For the inside covers that would sit behind the CD
and DVD I decided to again use song lyrics, this
time taking a line from each song and placing
them on the two covers randomly as what would
be a kind of game for fans of the artist as they
would have to see if they knew what song the lyrics
were from. I also chose to continue to use this font
that created the child like handwriting because of
the continued theme of innocence throughout my
piece. It also creates a cohesion between all of
the inside covers.
Like previously for both of my inside covers I had to
go to dafont, type in my text and then screenshot
it, pasting it in Photoshop. I then had to crop it and
removes the background using the magic eraser
tool and then paste it on my inside covers.
When creating the background for my inside
covers I took the square I had already created and
used the paint bucket to change the colour of the
squares from black to white.

14. Spine

15. For much of the spine I was able to use the
things I had already created and copy them
onto the spine. I was able to do this with the
artists name, album name and company
logo. However, I had to create the shape for
the spine and to do this I used publisher. I first
of all found out what size I would need the
spine to be and used the size guide on the
digipak template to make sure it was the
correct size. I then used the paint bucket tool
to make it black and then saved it as an
image and opened it in Photoshop.
For my spine I also had to add the numbers at
the bottom of the spine. To do this I used the
text tool and used the font courier final draft
and I thought it looked professional and the
most like what I had seen on other spines.
For the second spine I flipped my original
spine.

16. Poster

17. For my poster I decided to use the image
of Danny walking down the road as I
believe it works well with what I wanted
the theme of my whole product to be. I
decided to make the image tinted as I
believe it adds an effect to the image
that helps to enhance the message of
the theme of loss and innocence.
The first thing I did when making my
poster was open the image in Photoshop
and crop around it in order to make it
smaller and eliminate some of the extra
space around the edges so that the
poster centered on the artist it is trying to
promote.
I then used the black and white tool to
make the image black and white and
then changed the opacity of the black
and white in order to give it the brown
tint.
Original Image Cropped
Black & White

18. I then used the album title and artists
name I had made for the front cover and
copied them across onto my poster. I
went to dafont and again used the front
Atlantic Cruise and created the debut
album. I screenshotted this and pasted it
in Photoshop and then cropped it used,
used the magic eraser tool to get ride of
the white background and then used the
paint bucket to change the colour of the
text from white to yellow. I moved the
text onto my poster.
I then thought that the text didn’t work
just placed on the picture and decided
that I would need to add a box to have
them blend in better. I used the shape
tool and created a rectangle and then
made it black with the paint bucket tool. I
then lowered the opacity of the box in
order to make it see through so that my
whole product would blend in together.

19. I again used dafont to get the text for the
release date, again using Atlantic Cruise so that
there would be a cohesion on my poster. I used
all the previously mentioned tools to get this
onto my poster. I then used the shape tool to
create the line that sits under this. I used the
paint bucket tool to change both of these to
yellow so that it fit in with the rest of the text on
my poster.
I then used my back cover and took the
Interscope Records logo from it and copied it
over to my poster. I then used Google to find
the buy it now on ITunes and Google Play logos
so that my poster would look realistic as artists
would want to promote where their album
would be sold. I used the magic eraser to
remove the background from the these and
then copied them onto my poster.
Finally, I used the text tool to add the artists
website address onto the poster as a way to
promote the artist. I used the font verdana as I
believed it looked professional and fit in well
with the rest of the poster.