Digipak Cover Construction

The construction for the digipak will be created on Photoshop. I will start by doing the front cover which will consist of a photo of the artist along with her name and album title.

I started by setting the dimensions of the page equally so that it would consist of a square which is the shape of a digipak:

On the left side of digipaks there is a separate part which is for the spine. I had to draw a straight line so that I could see where the spine design would be situated:

There needs to be two fonts on the cover 1) for the artist's name 2) for the album title. I used the Photoshop library of fonts to test a few. My favourite was the bottom one in the dark gold colour:

After shifting through hundreds of photos we decided that this photo would be on the cover:

I played around with the brightness, contrast, vibrance, black and white to try and improve the photo. This kept the photo very similar to the original but just made it more enhanced. However, once I came across the hue and saturation tool new ideas came to mind. This tool changed the colour of the hair and eyes to whacky colours such as pink, blue and green. We thought we could just a different colour for each panel. We decided to use pink hair for the cover, but we made the eyes black. As you can see a lens flare has been added:

The next decision was making the choice of fonts along with the size and colour of it. When we had chosen we made sure that the font and colour would be incorporated onto the CD:

The next part of the cover to add was the spine line, this was done by using the line tool. After the line was created, we added in the text which would go along it: 

Our final cover: