Production - the process of creating my digipak

I started working on my digipak before half term, this week I've put a lot of work in to getting it ready for the deadline (Monday the 13th). Over this process I've been collecting screenshots to keep my blog updated with how I've done everything. It's a bit late.. but here it is!

Although I didn't initially plan to use the Pentonville effect, after selecting my images I began experimenting on Adobe Photoshop. Since I had tried this technique when we had the Photoshop practice lesson, I knew exactly what to do.

I duplicated the image layer and converted the top layer to black and white, I then zoomed in and used the eraser tool to rub out the sections I wanted to show up in colour (Orrie's lips and the rose).

I spent quite a while experimenting with fonts on Photoshop. I initially wanted to use a graffiti style font, (the most suitable one I found is shown above) but I decided it didn't work well with the more subtle and feminine feel of the rest of the cover.

Eventually I chose these two fonts, the font of 'Fixation' is quite subtle and discreet due to the handwritten style, this allows the slightly bolder font of 'Ariella' to stand out more and comply with the convention that the artist's name should have more focus than the album name. To make sure there is enough focus on the album name I have chosen for it to be red and the artist's name to be white. This also creates a good colour balance rather than using one colour for both pieces of text.

In my mock up I planned to have a red graffiti pattern on the middle section of the digipak, I took a black and white image and put a red colour filter on it, this worked well however I decided not to use it because it looked too fussy and didn't match the rest of the digipak. This is how I designed the middle panel in the end:

I decided that in my mock up the right hand side inside panel looked too plain so I chose this image of Orrie and used the Pentonville effect again.

Above are a few screenshots showing the process of picking out the red colour.

To achieve the accurate alignment of the three pictures on the left side of the inside panel, I had to use the grid feature to crop adjust and then align the images next to one another perfectly.

At first I used the same handwritten style font of  'Ariella' for the copyright information, My audience members said it looked too busy which I agreed with so I have now changed it to a much simpler font.