The document describes the steps taken to design a CD digipack template in a photo editing software. Key steps include: 1. Resizing and transforming an uploaded photo to fit the template using shift to maintain proportions. 2. Using selection tools like rectangular marquee and polygon lasso to cut out excess areas and tightly cut around the CD shape. 3. Rotating an image 180 degrees to have the top row appear upside down as the digipack would be folded. 4. Adding text elements to the front cover and spine, and ensuring font consistency. Conventional elements like barcodes and copyright were also included.

1. After uploading my image, I had to make it bigger so I would fit the template. To do this I
had to use the transform tool and then scale. In order to keep the proportions the same, I
had to hold down the shift key while dragging the edges.

2. I used the rectangular marque tool to remove the excess from the photo that I didn’t want. I
followed the guidelines of the digipack template to make sure that it all fitted together well.

3. As it would be folded to make a cd, the top row of images had to be upside down. To do this,
I had to go to transform, then I had to click rotate 180°.

4. In order to cut around the tight edges of the CD, I zoomed in closely to the image to make it
more precise. I then used the polygon lasso tool which allowed me to erase the sections that
I didn’t need.

5. Here is the finished result after cutting around the template .

6. I then decided to add the text to the front cover. I looked back to my font inspiration and
tried it out with the name that I had decided on. However, this is not the font and name
that I used in the end as I didn’t think it went well with the theme.

7. I decided to cut the image down even further to make the shot closer to her
face. I used the scale tool again to achieve this.

8. I changed the font colour as black font didn’t show up as well. This also softened the look
which is what I was aiming for throughout.

9. I added a barcode to my back cover as this is a typical convention of a digipack.

10. I added the copyright at the bottom of the back cover as this is also a convention of a
digipack. I created my own record label (NS Recordings) to make it more individual
however I did use ‘Columbia records’ as the distributer.

11. Some of the images seemed fairly warn out and faded so I decided to change the
brightness and contrast levels to make them stand out more and look more vibrant.

12. I repeated this step for my other images.

13. I included a full track list on the back of the album. These are some of the covers that Sofia
Karlberg has done in the past.

14. I wanted my spines to have the white writing like the front cover so I decided to
add a black background by using the rectangle tool.

15. I added the text to the spine and I used the same font as I used on the front cover to make
sure that it had an element of continuity throughout.

16. I decided to change my main image to one that I used on a different part of the
album. I think it is more eye catching and has something a bit more interesting about
it.