DIGIPACK BACK COVERS

These three images show some experiments and layout ideas we had for the back of the cover, testing out the font size and placement also the colors and boldness.

DIGIPACK PARTS

INLAY PHOTO EDITS

MAGAZINE ADVERT EDITING

MAGAZINE ADVERTS

After carrying out some research into magazine adverts, it became clear that we needed ours to have a picture on it as the main focus and background. Some of the photos we took for the digipack would definitely fit into our criteria really well. Below are the examples of this. Personally I really like the black and white pictures as they are really bold and eye catching. They would all work well and paired with the right font I think there is potential for an aesthetically pleasing advert, one which would definitely be noticed and read while flicking through a magazine.

EDITING PHOTOS

As soon as this photo was taken there was something about it that I really liked. The fact that it the guitar body catches his reflection from an over the shoulder shot has really produced a different outcome and as it wasn't a planned shot or composition I was really pleased that we were able to capture it. The way the background has blurred to an almost daylight bokeh effect makes the image soft and draws all the attention to the artists figure. I even like the contrast between the sharpness of him compared to the reflection. Over all I just really like this picture! I then started to edit it on the editing software Adobe Photoshop, something I become to be familiar with over the years. We decided that our photos needed to have that vintage feel and I knew the way to achieve this was through experimenting with the colours, changing the tints, giving the photos hints of reds and decreasing the blues. I played around with the colour of all of the other images we took on this day which are in the other photo posts. The photos to the left show a quick before and after of a few minutes of editing. I like the composition of the shot but there is just something I felt that could be improved upon so I clicked on the editing tool and cropped away a lot of the content. I like this edit as you only see the reflection of him and the back of his collar rather than his head however it's not obvious that his reflection is in fact on his guitar and hasn't just been edited on. The use of the guitar within the shot for our digipack is important as it emphasises the relation to the artist.

Therefore I decided to crop the picture into the right shape for a digipack. This made the appearance of the guitar clear and abled a part of the side of his face to be in the shot. I really like this composition and in my opinion it is a strong potential contender for the front or even the back cover of the album. The original photo could even be used across the front and back, by this I mean cutting the photo in half and having the relfection on the front as it is the front of him and the back of him on the back.

OVERLAY EDITING

To experiment with the photos that we have taken, I developed them further by overlaying photos to add extra depth. The result of this editing has produced some really different and unique outcomes.

DIGIPACK PHOTO EDITS 2