Digipak: Creating Inside Front Cover

So on my design, this is where the drawing of the house would've been but instead I decided I wanted to add some lyrics.
So while I was filming my teenagers in the park I took a few pictures to put onto my digipak.
I wanted these pictures to feature as a piece of each age is involved in the digipak, obviously this represents the teenage years.
Here are some of the photos I took:

The photo I chose in the end was: 

I chose this because I thought it was quite artistic (keeping with the genre) and a nicely framed shot. 

I then chose the font for the lyrics, I wanted it to be quite simple, so I went for Ariel rounded. 

The only thing about this cover is that because the picture is so colourful it was hard to pick a font colour that would stand out. In the end I decided to go for black because it was easier to read most of the text. 

Digipak: Creating Front Cover

When filiming my children I took a picture of the tin I used in the whole of my music video. This is when an idea cropped up, as the tin is so significant, maybe I could use this image but change the text of Love Hearts to "The Rumble Strips".

I then turned to photoshop...

To start with I cloned away the original text: 

I then looked for a similar text that was for the "LOVE HEARTS". I decided to use STENCIL. 

After I added the text, I edited the layer so it looked more realistic and like it was actually embossed into the tin. Changing the depth of the style and softening it, and also changing the opacity: 

To incorporate the stars from the font I cut out the stars using the quick selection tool and dragged it across to my edited tin and added them on: 

This is my finished project, which I am pretty impressed with! 

 

Digipak: Creating the Back Cover

So after my first attempt of filming yesterday and my discovery of Kirty's black board drawing I thought it would look good as either my poster or on my digipak.
In result I decided to experiment of putting it on my digipak.

At first I did consider using it for the front cover however, I thought the amount of black wouldn't really catch a consumers eye. It also isnt a very exciting colour, so instead I thought about using for my back cover, rather than the scribbles I originally had.

I opened my image onto photo shop and tidied up the bits of white chalk which had been rubbed off by using the cloning tool:

I then realised that I needed to pick a font that would match the picture to put in the song lists. I tried a few however, I felt none of them looked very good, so in the end I decided to try and draw the text on. 

I did this by using the paint brush and picking a brush that give it a chalk effect: 

I manage to find a realistic effect, using the drawn on text matches the indie genre as it is something different. And really matches my intentions of childhood. 

I also added, two bar codes, including a Blackberry one. As consumers now use modern technology to find out more about the band, this barcode takes Blackberry users to their 'website'. 

I got the pictures from google and then dragged them onto my back cover:

Originally I did a single album cover, but after speaking to my teacher I decided to add on more songs to make it into an album, here's the finished picture: 

 

PHOTO FUN (magnetic lasso tool/superimposing)

Our first photoshop lesson also included using the lasso tool, to get the basics done we cut out mario and sonic and popped them on another background..

We then went to more adnanced matters making Harry Potter fly over London! Here my attempt, the blur was supposed to make it look like he was moving in motion however, i think its too much.

We had some time left at the end of the lesson so I decided to experiment a bit more with photoshop making my friend look like she was in a different room.

PHOTO SHOP FUN! (rota scoping)

We also did some rota scoping like how the old school animations were done, I found this activity fun, and it might help with the childish theme I might involve on my digipak...
The orginal

After

I also did a second one, experimenting with the real photo and then the rota scoped one mixed together, you can see the eyes become quite creepy..

PHOTOSHOP FUN! (clipping masks)

So in preparation for our digipaks we have been practising our photoshop skills.
Personally, being a lover of 'Paint' on the computer I have not used photoshop (properly) before. The past few lessons have taught me the basics that I could use for my own design..

Here we are making font with a picture as the background..

My first attempt

I then experimented further by going on a font website and found a cool graffti font I wanted.
But in order to use it i had to cut it out with the magnetic lassoo tool..

I then carried on as you would normally placing it on a graffti background..

Then carried on as usual placing the text onto another background

However, because the font was quite thin it is hard to see the actual word, also both backgrounds are very busy..