Constructing the Digipak

Constructing the Digipak

When making the digipak, I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to create a professional looking digipak. I knew that when I have seen CD cases in the past, there are six panels and a spine to the case. I noticed that the is often a picture stretched out across the top three panels and then in the bottom left, there is the inside cover, with the middle panel on the bottom is where the back of the case would be. I therefore used the bottom right panel to put the front cover on it. This is what a digipak should look like.

Therefore, before using Photoshop, I used a digipak template which was six blank panels on which I placed the pictures on top of. I used one screenshot from my film where I am looking into the distance as it was a great shot and it conveys a lot of emotions that can be interpreted from the song. I cut parts out of the picture that I took a screenshot of and then cropped out the remaining parts of the edges. I then proceeded to add a faint blur on the picture before using it for my digipak. The other three pictures that I used for the three remaining panels were pictures that I took when I filmed the music video so I used these after having manipulated them on Photoshop. I used the sharpening tool on two of the images and then cropped them until they were in the shape of a square so that they could fit on the panels. I also used the text tool to write the songs from the album on the back of the cover and the artist's public web address. I also used this tool for the title on the front cover along with the artist's name. I used the radial blur tool for the pictures to make them slightly distorted and I then played with the contrast until I was happy with how the images looked. This was my final digipak.