The document describes the process of creating a digipak for music. It discusses:
- Making 6 separate Photoshop files for the different sections and ensuring consistent measurements.
- Using basic edits like black and white, curves, and levels layers to make the overall product look more professional across the front, back, and CD sections.
- Specifically for the front cover, adding a black and white layer and kerning the text to make it look more spaced out.
- For the back cover, adding more images and text while keeping a similar color scheme and layout to the front for consistency.
1. In the project to make both the magazine advert and the
digipak all of the work and images that I used were taken by
me or were made by me. As seen below and on the next
few slides I will show proof that I made the work and how I
did this . To make the digipak a made 6 separate PSD files
and made all of the sections of the digipak separate from
each other. They all used the same measurements so that I
could then stich them together for the final product as seen
to the left. The editing I used was more complex on different
parts of the digipak with some more basic edits such as black
and white as well as curve layers in order to make the
product overall look more professional.
2. Front Cover
The front cover was very simple and only used one main
image with a simple edit. For all of my separate pieces of work
I followed a simple yet professional and creative design. I
layered various basic edits these included a black and white
layer to make the digipak match both the advert and the
overall feel of the music video. I then layered my images as
well as my text. To make the text stand out and look more
professional I placed various edits on them including kerning
which allowed the space between the text to change and make
it look more spaced out. The main image was also simple as all
it required was some cutting tolls like magic wand as well as
some other edits to smooth it out.
3. The back again was very similar to the
from cover only I had to add more
images as well as a lot more text to
create the song list and the more
technical Copyright text seen in small
at the bottom. Using the same text
and colour scheme I made sure that
the back looked similar to the front
and made sure that text colour as well
as layout were similar to make the
digipak more consistent. The text was
placed to the as well as the declaimer.
I experimented with moving these
around. To finish I then placed some
edit layers on top of the edit to make
it look much nicer these included
curves layers, Levels and a black and
white layer to make it correspond to
the other sides.
Back Cover
4. CD
To make the CD part of the digipak
I used more practical tools to
create this part of the digipak. In
order to make this I used the
custom shape tool in order to
create a shape of my own. This
would then allow me to edit the
look later on allowing me to
further customise and edit the
shape more to my liking. Like
before I used the same text and
colour scheme with the only minor
change being the background to
reflect the CD part of the digipak. I
then made the CD look more
professional by adding a shine as
well as outlines and colour in order
to make it more professional and
more realistic