Finished Digipak

Finished Digipak 

I have finished all of my Digipak Pages, and this is how they turned out. I like that they all fit together in terms of the mood and theme of it. 

New Back Cover

Back Cover

I changed a few things on the back cover after realising I got some things wrong. First I realised that I'd put 'Brokenhearted' in capitals and the rest of the songs weren't. So I had to change that first, but then I realised that I'd written the record company website as 'JLJ Records' when the logo says 'JLJ Productions'. After changing it I think it looks good enough to keep and I see no huge mistakes.

New Lyric Page

Lyric Page

  

I made a lyric page but the text was different to the rest of the digipak, and I know that usually digipaks keep the fonts the same throughout. So I went back and changed the font to match the track list. I thought that the title of the song could stay the same because the song title would have a different font as it is specifically the song on this page and not the album. I thought about changing the font of the back cover instead of the font of the lyrics because the font of the lyrics before were clearer to see but then the back cover would have been out of genre.

Back Cover for Digipak

Back Cover for Digipak

I like the way the institutional information fits properly on the image, and it looks good with the record company as well. The font of the track list fits the theme of the digipak because it's really girly and cute.

Lyric Page for Digipack

Lyric Page for Digipak

I've made a lyric page for the digipak. This is for the extra panel on the outside of the digipak.

I did this by colouring over the background image in white paint and reducing the opacity of the layer so that the effect was blurred. I then added in the lyrics in a clear bold pink font. Because the lyrics are so long, I had to use two columns to fit them on the page. I found the font online and I liked it because the theres only one heart and its like a simple decoration.

Final CD Tray Design

Final CD Tray Design

I finally decided on keeping the Cd design simple and not including writing. I used a picture of Matilda holding a balloon and decided to fade the edges out in pink. For the CD tray itself, I just cropped out a picture of the flowers on the graffiti wall and used that so that there was a running theme of flowers throughout the digipak.

CD for my Digipak

CD for the Digipak

This is the first draft for the CD to my digipak. It has a kind of 70's feel to it because of the warped text around the cd. I don't think it fits with the genre of the rest of my digipak because of this and I'll have to redraft it. 

Another reason I'm not using it for my digipak is that after talking it over with someone else, they mentioned that the design was bold, and if the design is bold that would mean that everything else in the digipak and my website would have to be bold and outgoing too. I think I prefer to stay simple with the design.

Production Company Logo

Production Company Logo

 

 

When researching digipaks, I found that most had the production company's logo on the back. I made one that was black and white because they rarely have colour because that way the don't merge into the background colour of the digipak. Some also feature the production company logo on the spine as well as on the back cover.

Album Promotion Advert for Website

Album Promotion Advert for Website

This is to be displayed on the homepage so that its the first thing people will see when they open the website. This is important with pop artists because they are constantly selling themselves to their audience and album sales are essential to success.

Completed Digipak Cover

Completed Digipak Cover

 

 

In order to keep Matilda as the focus of the album, I decided to blur out the background and keep her and the balloon in full colour. I also heightened the colour of her lips and the flowers on her dress to make them more eye-catching.

 

I think the warped text on the balloon shows her fun side and links to the smile on her face while she looks at it. I think it will be easier to make the rest of my digipack this way because now I can keep the theme of 'fun' and 'colour' through the rest of it.

Digipack Practice #3

3rd Digipack Practice

This is my 3rd attempt at photo shopping my digipack cover. I like the 'fun' vibe it promotes, but I feel like it takes a lot of attention away from Matilda, and in pop music, the focus is always on the star. I think if there was a way to make her stand out more that it could work as a cover. Maybe if I heighten the colours of her make-up it would emphasise her more.

Tour Advert for Website

Tour Advert for Website

I decided to make an advertisement of a tour for the website. Lots of pop artists participate in world tours in order to maintain their relevance amongst their fans and build recognition for their newly released albums.

Digipack Practice #2

2nd Digipack Practice

I played around with CS6 and watched a different tutorial that showed how to create a Lichtenstein-inspired pop art effect.

I like that it connotes something playful and enjoyable like a comic book, but I wanted the colour to play a big part in the digipack and this effect washes the colour out so that everything in the background is a lot paler than the foreground.

Digipack Practice #1

Digipack Practise

I have been watching tutorials on youtube to learn different effects that can be made in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and I found an effect that makes the photo look like it's made up of cubes.

I like the effect but I think the cubes connote more of a dance genre and we want something that looks like pop.

First Draft of Digipack Cover

Digipack Cover idea

This is my first initial design for the digipack cover. I like the image of matilda used, because she is smirking and she is wearing bold make-up and a leather jacket that makes her look tough, but I don't think it has enough to show a contrast between sweet and girly, and tough and rebellious. I also think the font I used is more suited to the 'dance' music genre rather than pop. I like that the colour of the font matches her lipstick because it brings more attention to her mouth and the position that its in.

I think to improve this I will have to find a font on the internet and download it to use for the cover, because most of the fonts on photoshop look too generic. I also think that this cover is too simplistic and I need more going on in it to make it interesting, like the illustrations used in Cher Lloyd's 'Sticks + Stones'.

Practising Photoshop

Practising Photoshop

Removing Blemishes

           

               Before 

After

Lighten/Darken an Image

Removing objects from photos

Moving Objects

Work on two images at once

Remove the background

Mask