Evaluation of Software: Photoshop (Digipak)

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Use of Photoshop: Digipak

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Use of Photoshop:

Digipak

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Firstly we selected a photograph we had taken of a leaf that we were going to use for our digipak.

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After opening the photo in Photoshop, we used the Quick Selection Tool to select the section of the image we wanted to use.

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We then used the Free Transform tool to move the leaf to where we wanted it to be on the page. We also used this tool to rotate it into position.

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We used the Quick Selection Tool again to select a second leaf.

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We dragged the image to move the section that we wanted to use on to the digipak image.

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We then dragged and used the Free Transform tool to move the image into place. We also rotated the image to fit it into place.

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After layering many leaves on top of each other we were able to create a collage effect. We then used the Eraser Tool to make the image the same shape as the box.

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For our back cover we simply selected one of the images we had taken in Black Park. We used this image because it was more detailed on the right-hand side, leaving us space to insert the song titles on the left.

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Again for the front cover we used a photograph we had taken when filming in Black Park. We edited the contrast of the image to make the background colours darker and make the lead singer stand out more.

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We then inserted an image of the band that we had taken whilst filming the performance shots. Once in place we used the ‘Black & White’ effect to desaturate the colours of the image.

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We attempted to stretch this image to make it fit into the square shape of the digipak, however this made it look pixilated and disproportionate. We resolved this by taking a photograph of the bottom of the stage and adding this into the image, also using the black and white effect.

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In order to further link this image to the rest of the digipak and the poster, we decided to insert an image we had taken for our poster, of the lead singer holding a kite. We inserted the image by drawing around the area we wanted using the Quick Selection Tool. We then changed the Contrast of the image to make the kite brighter against the black and white background.

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Once all four of the digipak squares had their finished images on them, we added the band and album names to the front cover, using the Horizontal Type Tool.

We were then able to edit the font and size of the text, choosing to use the American Typewriter font in order to correspond with the video and poster.

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We then added the song titles to the back cover, again using the Horizontal Type Tool. We gathered the song names from the band’s real album, rearranging the order of the songs to make them fit better with our image, the shorter titles at the start and the longer titles at the end of the list.

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We then decided to make the inside of the spine black, as we felt this fitted well alongside the black and white image on the inside front cover. We decided on the use of plain black from looking at other album covers and seeing that on many of them a plain colour was used for the inside spine.

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We then added text to the spine of the outside cover. We used the Horizontal Type Tool as before, then rotated the image using the transform tool. We decided to keep the space behind the text plain white as we found that many album covers used a simplistic design for the spine.

We then added the record label logo as from our analysis of digipaks we found that it was common to include this.

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We then inserted logos to the back cover, as well as a barcode. These are added in order to advertise to the consumer who the record label and distributors for the band are.

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In order to make it more clear that the square of the digipak with the leaf collage was for the CD to go on, we decided to import an image of a CD that we found online.

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Our finished Digipak