Album Cover Progress

For the back cover of the album we decided to change our idea from a photo to a simpler back and keep the photos for the inside. This was because we realised that it isn't very conventional to have a big focal image on the back cover of an album.

We looked at the Disclosure album as this is of our genre. We noticed how the back featured a simple design with centralized writing. This follows conventions.

Therefore, we created a similar design but following the branding of our album cover and website using paint. We were going to create the paint smudges by taking photos and editing these like we did for our website banner. However, in order to have more control over them we decided to create them on Photoshop. Mari did this by installing a smudge brush and creating a few different ones to work with.
We really liked this effect, however, we realised that there were lines either side of each smudge which ruined the realism and made them look clearly Photoshopped. Therefore, we edited these photos by changing the brightness and contrast in order to make the lines non visible. This also improved the colour so we were pleased with this decision:

For the back cover smudges, we edited the colour to match the final banner of our Website, in order to keep a consistent colour scheme and sense of branding:

We also did this to the text on the front cover of the album. We changed the colour of the paint by colourising it and then editing the hue and saturation. This meant that we could give it any colour we wanted, so was really helpful for us.

For the inside, we chose to use simple images of the artist, with Georgie on the first inside and the two DJs behind the CD. In order to emphasise Georgie's leadership of the band, her photo is alone. We got them to do interesting poses so that it would differ from our other promo shots as well as the front cover.

We stuck with a minimalist design, using the white background to remain synergistic with the website and album cover. We also used creative poses to make it more interesting.

Refine Edge Tool

These images were edited out of the studio background and onto a clean background using the refine edge tool on Photoshop. We also changed the levels of contrast, brightness and saturation in order to make them more aesthetically pleasing and professional-looking.



Once we had the main panels done, we focused on the spine. We decided to go simple for this; again using powder paint to keep with the synergy. For practical reasons we used plain black writing so it would be easy to read. We also changed the colour of the paint to pink, again in order to keep with our colour scheme and branding.

Our final Digipak was now complete:

This can also be viewed at the top of my Blog.