My Photoshop Experience

Before making my digipak I had limited knowldege of how to use photoshop. So I watched a number of tutorials so I would be able to create the effects my partner and I had designed in our original plan. We encountered a problem when trying to make both the front and the back cover. This is because for both sides it was supposed to be text with a black background, however when trying to make both of these sides on photoshop we had difficulty making them look good and interesting. To solve this problem we decided to make a different design for both the front and the back, but still trying to produce the same affect. Making the Frame for the CD compartment was quite straight forward and simple, the gritty effect that we wanted came out looking quite good so we were happy. To make the frame with the skates it was just as straight forward, this time we didn't need a tutorial to to make the affect. We were able to mke it by looking through the different editting tools to see what looked good and what didn't. Making the frame with me on my skates was pretty difficult because we couldn't figure out how to do and we were unable to find a tutorial to help us. After a while I was able to figure it out using the magic wand tool. The frame with my friend on his bike overlayering the map was pretty easy to make, by putting one picture over the other and decreasing the opacity.

My Digipak Design

This is a plan of my partner and I's dipak with comments about each side.

Digipak Research

Digipaks are usualy seen on limited edition or specialist CD's for example music albums and multi-disc sets. Digipaks are pretty important because they raise awareness for the artist. The pictures used in the digipak give the audience a feel for what the music is like. There are two different types of digipaks that artist may use for their music either a four panel or a six panel.

A Four Panel:

ASix Panel:

An example of a Six Panel Digipak:

An example of a Four Panel Digipak:

I have been looking for digipaks made by artists in the genre my song falls into, however it seems neither my artist or other artists have made digipaks, so I looked for front covers instead to get different ideas to use for my own

digipak.