Above is a screen grab of what I have done now. I have opened the Photoshop document on Illustrator and then I vectorised the individual designs so that I could create a coloured background without colouring the individual white sections of my design, thus making it easier for me to manipulate. I also made the designs smoother instead of rough like it was on Photoshop, I then manipulated the design black and white so I had a block-colour design. Next, I am going to create a background for my digipac which means I have nearly finished my digipac. I have liked creating this digipac as I have learnt a lot about Illustrator and the tools used to create a digipac.
I then experimented with different ways of creating a background on my digipac. My idea was to create a background with a gradient using the gradient tool on Photoshop, this would add more colours to my digipac to make it look much more interesting, and it would also contrast with my design idea.
I experimented by creating a separate gradient on each section of my digipac. I do not think this looks good as it looks too busy and it is also hard to put together and line up each separate coloured box.
I then tried another idea by creating two separate gradients for each side of the digipac. I think it looks a lot better as it is not too busy. Between the two designs I have used to experiment with backgrounds, I have chosen the design above as it does not look busy; it still has different colours and shades and I think it will look better as the end product.
I added the bands name and also the tracks name. I also placed a bar code onto my digipac as I want the digipac to look as realistic as possible, and it also fills up the blank space, making the digipac look much better.
I used the burn tool on Photoshop to create the edges of the digipac darker, adding little detail such as this will make my digipac look very professional. I also added some writing at the bottom of the digipac on the back of it, as this is what is on all professional digipacs. The writing is about a record company and their trademarks.
I also added detail which is on all digipacs which is the song lyrics, and also the tracks which could be on the digipac including a remix.
I then changed the colour of the text on my digipac as I feel that the black was too dark and dull against the background and also the drawings. I like how bold the writing is, making the bands name and track eye catching.
To link to the band I have chosen to make a music video, digipac and poster for, I have chosen to include a photograph of them in the digipac, and I have chosen to place this where the CD goes, so when the user gets the CD out, you will see the band. To do this I captured a photograph which is above of two of the people that I used in the music video. I then manipulated this photograph on Photoshop by putting a stamp filter on it. I did this as I felt that it fit well with the rest of the design. I then had to get rid of the white space around the two models which took a very long time as I used Photoshop to do this. Once I have deleted the whole background I can then transfer the edited image onto my digipac.
I flipped my digipac design round so I could sort out the image of the band properly. I copied and pasted the two models twice to make up the amount of people I filmed when I came to film my music video. I had to do this as I did not have enough people in the photograph, and I chose to include the whole band instead of two of the band members. I think it looks a lot better with the band members on the digipac as it relates to them better. I feel that the models are very bold on the page so I am going to change their opacity to 80% as this will keep the eye line at the other designs on the digipac. I also feel that the models look too similar, so I am going to edit them further to make different details thus making it look like I have included an image of four band members.
I have zoomed in on the are with the band members so I can show you that I have made details very different, to make it look like I have captured an image of all of the band members I included in my music video.
I feel that by including this image of the band members, it has linked back well to the music video, and it also shows the audience what the band looks like, which then makes them interact with the band members and recognise them if they saw them on TV or posters.
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