Creating the Digipack

I order to create our digipak we used the programs Photoshop and InDesign. These are the stages we went through in completing the digipak

Stage 1

The first things that we did was to open up our chosen front cover image in Photoshop and use the clone stamp tool to cover up the pattern in the middle of the shirt. This tool simply uses the grey that is already on the t-shirt to cover up the other colours on the t-shirt

Stage 2

We then changed the brightness and contrast of the image to draw it out more. We did this by clicking on the ‘Image’ option at the top of the page and scroll down to the brightness and contrast options

Stage 3

We had to then insert the pictures of the fantasy-like girls in Photoshop and cut away the background so it is simply just the figure of them. We did this by using the the magic tool which selects certain parts of the background to be deleted so it is just the image of the girls. We then save the two images.

Stage 4

Next, we inserted the pictures of the girls onto the main image going to be used for the front cover and positioned them where appropriate on the image. We clicked on ‘Layer’ on the main tool bar across the top of the page and scrolled down the Layer Style options. We then used the blending options to bring down the opacity of the images of the three girls to give out the dream affect. We also added in the main title using a text box and the bit at the bottom right corner of the screen saying 'American Dream'

Stage 5

Now the the front cover had been finished, we next made the inside panel which we simply done by inserting a nice image of the woods scenery from the video and added so information about the album and record company

Stage 6

This is the making of the CD which is again, just a photograph of the artist sitting on a log with the forest around him, giving the audience that sense of spacial relationship between him and everything around him. We then drew a big circle and a very small circle to make the shape of a CD and then made the image fit to the shape of the CD.

Stage 7

This is the final stage of the making of the digipak which is the back cover. We used another image of the artist sitting on the log with him back to the audience. We changed the brightness and contrast of the picture slightly so that the artist is drawn out from the dark background. We then inserted a bar code at the bottom right corner of the digipak and text saying 'Rulin Records' at the bottom left of the digipack. Finally we inserted the song names on left side of the digipak.

Our Digipack

Here is the final deisgn for our digipack, along with the 3D version

Below is the image of the four sided image of the digipak but with annotations around it explaining what is included on the digipak and why it has been put there.

First Draft of Digipak

Below is the first draft of our digipak

To view what my teacher and my class mates had to say about our digipack clikc on the link below

http://hannahsealy.blogspot.com/2010/03/evaluation-question-3.html

Exisitng Digipaks

A digipack is a type of cd packaging Made out of materials such as card, paper etc. Digipacks can be made to open out like a book or they can be made in three parts. The digipak that we require to do must have four pictures in it so to make it open out like a book would be the obvious choice.

In order to help create our own digipack for our album, we have researched into existing digipaks music artists albums. Below are images or existing digipaks

Album Front Covers

Having researched album front covers, we found that the majority of covers include either a close up or a medium close up of the artist with a stern direct facial expression. We also found that the artist were often staring into camera to attract the attention of the public of the viewers. This is encouraged by their straight, yet seductive stare into the camera, it draws our attention.

I think using a close up or medium close up of the artist on the front of the album cover will be a good look for our Digipak.