The document describes the process of designing a digipak and magazine advertisement for a music album. Key steps included: 1. Editing images in PowerPoint and applying a "Pencil Grayscale" artistic effect to give images a sketch-like appearance. 2. Formatting images and adjusting effects like pencil size so images remained recognizable. 3. Laying out and adding text elements like the album title and track listing in selected fonts. 4. Assembling design elements in Photoshop to see how they fit together in the final digipak template. 5. Creating a magazine advertisement using a similar process with an image, text, and details to promote the album release

1. EDITING UPDATES

2. Digipak editing…
This is the first image we
started with when creating
our digipak. We put it on
PowerPoint as the effect we
wanted to use on it can only
be found on here.

3. …
Here is how we got the
sketched effect onto our
digipak.
We clicked ‘Artistic
Effects’ and then chose
‘Pencil Grayscale’ to give
it the desired effect.

4. …
We had to format the
image because we did not
want it to be so sketchy
that it was unrecognisable
so we took the ‘pencil size’
down to 7 so it did not
look too thick.

5. …
We then saved this image as
‘Final Design for Digipak’ under
the ‘Media’ folder so it would
be easy to find when it came to
putting them all together.

6. …
We then went onto
canva.com (digipak maker)
and inserted our final digipak
into there

7. …
Here we chose a border to
go around the text to make
it stand out and look more
professional. This makes the
layout look less messy as
everything is within the
border.

8. …
We then downloaded this
border so we could then add
our own text inside of it.

9. We went onto 1001fonts.com
and found a font we wanted to
use and typed ‘Arsonist’s
Lullabye’ into it so that we
could have a preview of what it
would look like. We then
copied this text ready to put on
the front of our digipak.

10. We then inserted this text onto
our digipak and changed the
size and the angle of it to
make it fit better.

11. We then did the same thing
for our Hozier title and
inserted it into the bottom of
the digipak.

12. We then changed the
brightness and contrast of the
font to make it white so the
audience could see it properly.

13. For the inside cover, we did
the same thing and edited it
on PowerPoint. Again, we went
onto ‘Artistic Effects’ and
chose ‘Pencil Grayscale’ as the
effect.

14. We then did the same thing
here but changed the ‘pencil
size’ to 10 to make it look less
blurred and so the audience
can tell what the image is

15. We went onto
1001fonts.com to choose
the font we wanted for
the lyrics and then copied
them so we could insert
them onto the digipak.

16. We then inserted the text
onto the digipak but this time
we did not need to change
the colour as the audience will
be able to read it clearly as it
is black on a white
background

17. We then clicked on ‘Artistic
Effects’ and chose the ‘Blur’
option so the text would
look a little bit blurred

18. Once we had blurred all the
text, we went to artistic effects
and then changed the radius to
4 so it was less blurred and
more readable.

19. We then grouped them all
together so that they were just
a picture and would move
around as one rather than
everything moving about

20. We then saved this as
‘Inside Right’ so when we
came to find it, it would be
simple and we could insert
it with no issue.

21. We inserted the image
that goes behind the CD
and added the artistic
effect we had chosen on
the others

22. We had to change the pencil
size to 18 to make the image
recognisable to the audience.

23. We then inserted he back
cover of the digpak into
PowerPoint so we could add
the barcode and legal info

24. We added the barcode to the
back of the digipak as it is a
convention of digipaks.

25. We then added the legal
information and the
record label to make it
look more professional
and look more like a
digipak.

26. We then added the track
list in the font that had
used previously for the
front cover to make it
look more professional

27. Photoshop…
We then inserted the
final digipak designs
into Photoshop

28. …
We then clicked ‘Copy
Merged’ so that we
could copy it onto the
template

29. We pasted this onto the
template so we could check the
sizing and to fit it into the
template of the digipak

30. We then went onto
‘Transform’ and ‘Scale’ to
make it bigger so it
would fit in the box

31. We fit it into the box and
now we had to do the same
thing with the other 3 sides

32. We then went onto ‘Transform’
and ‘Rotate’ since this image
had to be upside down

33. We added all the designs
onto Photoshop so we
could then see what it
looks like.

34. We then put the spine in
so when it is on the shelf
people will know what
album it is.

35. Magazine Advert
We took a screenshot of this
image from our music video
so we could use it for the
magazine advert

36. We inserted it onto
PowerPoint and went
to ‘Artistic Effects’ and
chose ‘Pencil Grayscale’
like we did for the
digipak

37. We changed the pencil
size to 11 so it would
look more recognisable
and so the pencil lines
were not as thick

38. We then clicked ‘Shapes’
and inserted a straight line
and then right clicked the
line and selected ‘Format
shape’

39. We then changed the shape
of the line to a dotted line

40. We added the text from
1001fonts.com onto the advert
to add continuity.

41. We then added the rest of the
text to promote the artist and
show when the album is being
released.

42. …
We then added a smaller
picture of the digipak to
show the audience what
the album looks like when
they come to buying it in
the store.
This is our finished
magazine advert