The document discusses various ideas for designing the front cover of a CD. It describes 8 versions of the cover design that were created, with changes made to elements like the background image, placement of cracks on the person's face, font styles, brightness, dimensions and cropping. The final version featured cracks on the person's arm and cheek, with decreased brightness to make the dimensions more visible.

1. Drafting for the
CD Front Insert
Anand, Trupti & Urvi

2. Steps To Making Front Cover 1
•
• Black & White Effect
• - Went to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. To Make the saturation 0
• - Then Renamed the layer: 'Black & White Picture'
• - Duplicate 'Black & White Picture' layer and then it was renamed into 'B&W Picture Copy'.
• - In the 'Black & White Picture' layer, the smudge tool was used with opacity 77% and it was
smudged around the person (Sandhya) so the she was not smudged but the buildings were.
• Crack effect
• - Tutorial to make the crack effect -
http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-create-a-realistic-crack-effect-on-face/
• - After using the previous tutorial, the crack is a brush. The brush was then used to put
cracks on the face and shirt.
• Font
• - 'Still Not Broken' font - Champagne & Limousines Size 36
• - 'Sandhya Acharya' font - Champagne & Limousines Size 12

3. CD Front Cover Idea 1
This was our first CD cover however with many opinions we decided
to work on this to a further extent. Here the crack effect is used on
one side of her face and her body. This reinforces the state of mind
she is in. The font, ‘Champagne & Limousines’, was very formal and
easy to read.

4. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v1)
This was another attempt at the
CD front cover. This looks
more like a CD cover than the
previous attempts. The crack
effect is shown in this image
and the purpose of this is to
reinforce the fact she is half
broken but ‘still not broken’.
We decided to change the font
to the plain ‘Myriad Pro’. The
font in this is quite simple and
is not very eye catching. To
improve the font can be in
bold.

5. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v2)
Here the font is bold and
stands more than the previous
attempt. Also to make the CD
cover look more professional,
a Gassian Blur was used to
reinforce her fragmented state
of mind. Also it shows that the
artist wishes to blur her
memories and forget about
them.

6. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v3)
In this image there is a
white glow added to ‘Still
Not broken’. This was done
because the black text from
the previous attempt
clashed with the top the
Sandhya was wearing
therefore the white glow
was added in order for the
text to be seen much
clearer.

7. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v4)
This was the same layout to
idea 6 however this is
without the crack effect.

8. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v5)
All previous versions were not in
the correct dimensions
therefore this attempt had to be
redone on a different canvas.

9. CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v6)
The font looked too simplistic so
we decided to bring back
‘Champagne & Limousines’ from
the previous idea. We decided
to combine the cracks from the
other idea into this one to
improve the look of this idea
and to further reinforce the
album name

10. CD Front Cover Idea 3 (v1)
This was the third attempt for
the CD front cover. This effect
was to reinforce her life as
miserable and unhappy.
However the font here
doesn't really stand out and is
not eye catching for the
audience. Also for a CD front
cover to be successful it needs
to have an appealing look
therefore after many opinions
on this we decided this is not
the CD front cover we will be
using.

11. CD Front Cover Idea 3 (v2)
Developing on the second
CD front cover idea, we
missed out the artists name
and this is shown in this
image on the left. However
the cover still looks quite
simple and does not send
out the message to the
audience of what her album
is based on.

12. CD Front Cover Idea 3 (v3)
This version is different in
terms of the album title ‘Still
Not Broken’ which is in bold
and stands out more.

13. CD Front Cover Idea 4 (v4)
To be precise we measured the dimensions of the CD cover again and found
out that they were different. Therefore we decided to test it out on a London
background to see if it looked okay.

14. CD Front Cover Idea 5 (v5)
Here we took our previous idea and made the image wrap around the CD
cover according to the new dimensions. We will now go on to add text
and other features of a CD such as spine, company logos, barcode and
track listings.

15. CD Front Cover Idea 6 (v1)
In this version, we added the crack effect and added the artists name and
the name of the album. We also made amends to the brightness of the
background and the hue saturation using the gradient tool.

16. CD Front Cover Idea 6 (v2)
In this version, the position of the crack moved towards her eye and the
cracks on her arm disappeared. Also the brightness was decreased to
make the artist stand out more. The opacity also decreased. The image
also had been cropped however we decided to change the image back to
the original one.

17. CD Front Cover Idea 8 (v8)
This was our final version of the CD front cover. We added the crack back onto
her arm and positioned the crack more onto her cheek rather than near
the eye. Also the brightness was decreased to make the dimensions more
visible.