Making Of: Digipak & Booklet
For the front cover of the digipak I used a black
background with grey detail. I also added a texture to
the top and bottom of the cover and then added a navy
overlay layer to that so that it would fit in with the
primarily black, navy and grey colour palette that I had
chosen. Next, I added still images that were taken at the
student demonstration where I filmed the majority of
my music video and after using the magic wand tool to
select sections of them placed them between the
texture details.
I then copied the
background and
texture detail
onto the other two
panels so that it
would look
consistent on each
cover.
After experimenting
with different font
styles on dafont.com I
decided that a sans
serif font would stand
out well from the
detail on the digipak
and chose ‘coolvetica’.
After installing it I was
then able to add text
to each panel of the
digipak.
To prevent the back of the digipak from being to plain and to
separate the audio and visual features of the digipak I used a
stock image to create scissor lines. I also added this detail to
the front of the digipak as I liked the effect that it created. To
make it stand out from the images on the front cover I used the
drop shadow tool.
To create the band pages of the digipak booklet I
used the selection tool to cut out sections from
two images of each member and then combined
them on a navy background. Using the same font as
the rest of the digipak I added the members name
to the middle of the two pictures and used the
drop shadow tool to make the text stand out.
For the biography and contact pages of the booklet I used
plain navy or black backgrounds to keep within the
colour palette and used the add text tool to add details
in the same font used on the rest of the digipak.