Sunday, 3 January 2010

Creating the digipak.

The front cover;

Step 1
First, we edited a photograph that we had previously took of the fake money stook to the wall. We edited the brightness, contrast and saturation to create a black and white effect. We then added a "poster edges" filter to make the money look more cartoon-like and interesting.

Step 2
Looking at real media products made us realize that the background should not steal focus from the main image. Changing the opacity of the photograph of the money to 70% and adding a gradient to the background created this effect, which would look perfect behind an image of Grace.


Step 3
We then added an edited image of our model Grace, adding a stroke to make her match the cartoon-like effect of the money in the background.

Step 4
Next, we added the title of the song using a font which we found on http://www.dafont.com/. We like this font as it looks handwritten, as though Grace herself (the artist of the song) has written it and we felt that this looked effective. We added a gradient to the background of the text to create the multi coloured blend effect.

Step 5
Adding Grace's name using another font found on http://www.dafont.com/ completed the cover. The font was coloured white with a black stroke around it.


We used similar methods to create the rest of the digipak and used the follwing model as our guideline for the size it should be;


This is now how our final digipak looks;