Editing an image and designing a digipak in Photoshop
1. I began with importing an
image of Ella and increasing
the contrast. This made her
lips a brighter red. I decided
to make her lips a bolder red
to stand out and make a
statement
I cropped the image and then
used the drag and drop
technique to add the edited
image onto the digipak
template.
Because this image is in the
inside of the digipak I didn’t
want it to be too bold.
Therefore I changed the
opacity to be 37%.
I duplicated the image of Ella’s
lips onto the other inside
cover.
2. I cropped the image and then
used the drag and drop
technique to add the edited
image onto the digipak
template.
Once I scaled the image to a
square, I changed the image to
black and white.
3. I then began to add text, the artists name. I
found the text from dafont.com and
imported the text into Photoshop. I then
used the text tool to create a path to start
typing. Due to the background being a grey,
I had to use the magic wand tool to get rid
of the white that shadowed the text. I then
scaled the text to be in proportion
On this screenshot I added the
title of the album underneath
the artists name, in a different
font.
4. On this part of the digipak I
needed a different image of
the artist to fill the square. I
changed the image colour to
black and white. I changed the
redness to be brighter so that
the lips were bolder.
I then added the
songs featuring on
the album onto the
back cover as well
as the release date
and the artist name.
The last part was to add the
barcode onto the template and
the production logo.
5. For the inside fold of the
digipak I used the shape tool
and placed a square to match
the template. I then changed
the fill colour to be grey, this
was to match the rest of the
digipak and represent a
background.
On the grey square I added
lyrics from the song we used
for our music video.