I created my digi-pac on Photoshop, I took my photos myself using an actor, I wanted to take photos of the actor from my music video but he wasn’t available so I requested the help of another actor. I took the photos of him around the drill hall, the hardest shot to take was the one I used for the front cover, this is because the shots were taken on the road and I had to take them quickly. Apart from this there were no problems in the photo shoot. After taking the photos I uploaded them into Photoshop. I based the shots on the ones I was going to use from the film, however I couldn’t use shots from the film as turning them into images made them too low quality to work with.
I opened up the template, which separated each section of the cover, and started with the front cover. I took the photo and cropped it to show what I wanted it too I then resized the image to fill the section group. I then darkened the image so that it would look more like a folk CD cover, I then brought out his hands using the skin highlighter tool, I also lightened his hair slightly to bring it out. I removed the colour from a man in the backgrounds hoody using the colour correction tool, it was bright blue and stood out too much from the back ground. Next I created the back cover, again I started by darkening the image, this time I think it worked really well as it brought the grass out. next I used the skin corrector to bring out the skin, I had a slight problem in the fact that the face and hands wouldn’t go to the same level of colour, one would look bleached out or far too red whenever I tried to use the tool, so I separated the face and hands before correcting the colour. I finished off this picture by brining the hair out slightly, by selecting it then bighting the area.
Next I moved on to the inside images, I started by making the image that will appear behind the CD, I took a image taken on location when filming the musician of his arm playing the guitar. Once again I cropped and resized this image to make it fit the needed area. I then duplicated the image and made the top layer black and white, leaving the one beneath in colour, I then removed the guitar from the top image so that the colour version showed through; I then touched up any areas I had gone in to around the guitar making them black and white again. I then had to rotate the image so that it was the right way round so when folded it was the right way up. Next I found another photo I had taken of the musician at a earlier date, he was standing on a plain back ground, I cropped the image to be very close around the singer to remove a picture frame that was in the photo. I used the colour selection tool to take the background colour, and make a square the size and shape of the area I was placing the image. I flipped the image of the singer and positioned it before reducing the opacity on the photo to make him appear ghostly on the image.
With all the images created I moved on to editing the text. I decided that the main text would be in font style Garamond, I chose this font because it is the font that has been on many of the oxford companion book covers, to this extent I also used the layer out the title “oxford companion” out in the same way as it is on the oxford companion of music for the front cover and spine. On the back cover I have two titles one for the song and one for the video these being the two things that where appearing in the CD. The one bit of text I had a problem with where the lyrics, the entail way I placed them went over the photo of the singer in the inside cover, I easily repositioned the lyrics and the two lines that where going over his face had a brake in the middle so I was able to cut these lines in half. I used the font Pristina for the artists name on the front cover and spine.
After I had done all this I had to create my company logo and the copywriter text. I started by using the shape tool to make a banner then I made a white circle with the shape tool and added some black splotches to make it look like cow hide, finally I added the name of the company, Livestock records, I then used the skew tool to alter the shape of the text and the banner to make them fit together. I used Arial to create the official text as this is the font used to for the official text on other CD covers.
Here is the finished product:
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