Album digipak

After creating both covers on Photoshop we saved them onto the student drive, into our group folder so we are all able to easily access them.

Front Cover

For the front cover we decided not to use any images including the group members, so we chose to use two images of the powder paint across the floor and then merge them together to make the final image look bolder and more effective. When we had merged both image together we decided to play around with the colours and filters to make it bolder, and after doing this we decided that blue/green and purple combination was best as we feel it represents the group as a whole and will appeal to the target audience (young teenagers). The paint splatters at the bottom we downloaded from the internet to use as a stamp/brush on Photoshop. Before placing the stamp onto our main image we would choose what colour paint splatters we wanted so that it would coordinate with the colours on our main image, we chose to add 3 stamps of the paint splatter in blue, pink and pastel purple which we all felt fitted well with the main image.

When thinking about the font, we decided for the front cover that we would use our first font choice that we chose in our final two. We were able to gain access to this font through the website DaFont and it was under the 'Retro' category which we feel linked in with the name of our group Vintage Strobe. We typed out what titles and names we needed, which were originally a black font, and then print screened them and saved them as images to then open in Photoshop. To change the fonts to white we lightened them, and for the name of the group we made it transparent so there was no background colour, and for the title of the album we made the font transparent so it shows up inside the white background where we print screened it.


Back Cover

Our album back cover was a lot more simple to make. For our main image we simply played around with the brightness and saturation to make the powder paint as bright as possible but still making it look like powder and not entirely edited. We then had to add all the necessary extra images that an album back cover has, so the record label, barcode and copyright message. The barcode was simple to find and add to main image, but when it came to the logo we had to see which one showed up best against the background. We first wanted to have the red and black Sony Music logo, but the black writing did not show up well so we decided to use the all white one as it shows up very clear on our main image. For the copyright message we looked at what would be featured within the message by searching on Google, when we found what the message was we typed it out onto a PowerPoint slide and then print screened, and saved as an image to again open in Photoshop.

For our track list we decided to use our second font choice out of our final two as we feel it went well with the neon effect of the paint in the main image. We found this font by searching for Demi Lovato's Neon Lights font in Google, and we found a website where we were able to create our own text with this font. We print screened each album track in this font and saved them as individual images to the open in Photoshop. The font was originally black and had a white background around it from where we print screened, and we were going to keep the track list like that but we then had the idea to lighten the font to white and get rid of the background, and it looked much more professional and we were still album to clearly see the entire track list.

We now have to merge both covers together to make our final digipak, and we feel by doing this it will make the entire thing look a lot more professional.