Creating My CD Digipak - Outside Cover

Today I began to create my final CD digipak using the photographs that I had taken yesterday. I'm going to take screenshots throughout to show my progress. I changed some of my idea, and decided to have a picture of Liam on the back of the outside cover next to my lyrics as I thought it would look better.


Stage One - I selected a picture that I thought would look good on the back, and then used the lasso tool to cut out the background and the eraser tool to rub out any rough edges. I also used a soft paintbrush around the edges to make it slightly blurry, and to also remove any jagged edges to give it a smoother effect to make it look more proffessional.

Stage Two - After I had successfully removed the background and made the edges neat, I then positioned the image where I wanted it on the screen, and converted it into black and white, as I thought that the picture looked better in black and white, but also because I think it will fit into my finished digipak more.

Stage Three - Once I was happy with this, I began to work on the front cover. I chose a microphone that I wanted from my photographs, and again used the lasso tool to remove the background. 

Stage Four - I then changed the position of the picture so I could decide at what angle it looks best. I  then moved on to again remove the rough edges and make it look neat once I was happy with the position of the picture. 

Stage Five - Once I was happy with the microphone, I started to add the text on the back cover for the track listings. 

Stage Six - Once I had completed writing the text, I added the barcode on the right side of the digipak, using Bridge.

Stage Seven - I then added the production label for The Script, 'Sony Music'

Stage Eight - I decided to change the writing on the track listings to dark blue, to add some colour into my digipak. 

Stage Nine - I then added my album name and and artists name onto the front cover of my digipak. I selected text effects and "wave" to make the text look more interesting. I decided on two colours, black and blue for the text. 

Stage Ten - However, after looking at this when I had finished, I felt that I needed to add something else to it, so I decided to add a background to my digipak. I experimented with a couple of colours on the background:

Stage Eleven - I then decided on a beige colour as I thought this looked better, and relates to their genre of indie rock. I then had to remove any rough edges that are shown around my images after I had placed the background into my digipak. 

Stage Twelve - Lastly I had to insert small print at the bottom of my back cover. I done this from looking at other album covers, and then added in my own. I used text size 4.5 to make the writing appear really small like it would on another album cover. I had to zoom in on this part so I could ensure that the writing was correct. 

I have now finished the outside of my digipak cover and will complete some audience feedback and post it too my blog.