Further Development of Our Digipak

Continuing from where the last post left off, we started to create multiple front covers with images that we had taken the second time round, with different effects applied, most of them including a black and white filter. Here are some example of the front covers we drafted:

We then edited one of our photos which we thought could be great for our inside cd cover, however there was a problem with it being the houses in the background. We decided that the houses made the image look like a dreary miserable London city, which isn't the star image we were trying to apply our band to. Therefore I used the drop tool to obtain the pastel colour of the blue sky in the image, and then used a hard pen tool to colour over the houses and blend them into the sky. The drop tool allowed us to make the sky look seamless and real. We created this and as you can see the sky removes the buildings:

Original:

Edited:

In order to create many variations of front covers quickly in order to have many to chose from and receive feedback from we had to stop using photoshop as the amount of freedom in detail it provides meant that each front cover took a while to create. Therefore we switch the the website called Befunky which allowed some similar effects with less freedom of adjustability. In doing this we stumbled on the black and white square effect which bordered the image, we decided that with this effect we didn't need the black and white filter as the border created a polaroid look which really complemented the image and the star image of our band. Next we stumbled upon the font "typewriter" which helped the digipak associate with grunge rock, our genre, and make the band appeal to a target audience of disengaged youth through looking rugged. The back cover was created by creating songs for our album and writing them in a list with the same font, and then using a triangle overlay of one of our pictures showing only our lead singers boots in black and white, and then feathering the triangle which produced a nice fade effect. The spine was easy to create as we just created a text box, blacked out the background, then wrote the album name, our record company, and the catalog number in the same font. This is the end product:

The inside front cover was created by writing about songs with exceptions such as exceptions of writers other than the roaches etc. all in the same typewriter font. It was accompanied by an individual shot of each member of the roaches in black and white and with a round cornered frame to it. this was inspired by the album by the Felice Brothers which was mentioned earlier in our blog.