Digipak

I have designed my digipak on both In design and photo shop. Photo shop has allowed me to edit photographs and change colours and size. Whereas I have used In design to construct the digipak itself.
I have used a website called dafont.com to find appropriate fonts to use on my digipak. As seen below. I chose the Handwriting section of the fonts, as I knew this was the style of font I wanted to appear on my digipak. Below is some of the options I had to choose from.

I tried and test some of the fonts by putting the title "You've got the love" into the font, to see whether I thought it was appropriate or not. As seen below, some of the fonts were not suitable.

The reason this font was not suitable for my digipak, is that it is a font for a younger audience and would not be in keeping with my design.

After looking at a selection of other fonts, I finally found the below font. I thought this relaxed yet bold handwriting style would be appropriate and in keeping with my digipak design. This font is called - neverletgo.ttf

I have taken print screens at different stages of making my digipak in order to show the process. Below you can see the digipak template I constructed in in design. This is the correct size for me to design my digipak.

I then began to design my digipak template, as seen below.

I used a red bow and the rectangular and fill tool in order to construct the ribbons. I also implemented a bar code. It is at this stage I will then use the font I have chosen above to add to the design.

The next time I came to work on the development of my digipak I discovered that the program of In design I had been working on had in fact been removed from the computer i was working on. This then meant starting again with my design, but just singularly working on photo shop. I kept the same template as seen above.

In the meantime I had done a photo shoot with a friend, and taken many photographs for the different aspects of my digipak. It is these photographs I will now use on my digipak. The photographs I have taken are staged to represent a pop star look. I think they will appeal to my target audience as they are striking and eye catching.

Now working in Photo shop I placed the photographs I had taken onto my template and began to arrange the as i thought they looked best. Originally I wanted to use the black and white image for the front cover, but as I experimented and arranged different photos in different places, I in fact discovered that black and white for the front cover wouldn't stand out enough. I also found that it would be very difficult to put any text onto the black and white back round so that it was readable.

As you can see here, I have replaced the previous front cover photo, for me much brighter and more eye catching. IN this print screen, I have also moved the previous front cover image to the back cover as I thought it was more suited there as it states the name of the song. I also like the contrast in colours from the bright front cover to the much more understated back cover.

Here I have rotated the template so that i can correctly position the inside image. When the digipak is folded up this image will appear on the inside and therefore it will need to be rotated correctly. The image I have chosen for the inside is in black and white so it is in keeping with the theme and adds continuity. It is also out of focus. This is because it is one of the less important images and doesn't need to focus so heavily on the singer, but at the same time we still know it is her.

Here you can see I have now successfully put all 3 images correctly in their places and locked the layers so they cannot move.

It is at this stage where I began to think about the text on the spine of the didgipak. As you can see I looked at several different fonts to use for this. I wanted a script. handwriting style font to

fit in with the feminine style of the digipak. The font I chose was 'Mirialdi.' I then position the text with the name of the artist, a gap, and then the name of the song. So that it filled up the spine fully.

Here I have completed the text on the spine. I have also chosen a light Orange colour for the text as I thought this was most fitting with the colour scheme used throughout.

I then went onto put text n the front cover to advertise the singer and the name of the song. I chose the same font for this, to add continuity.

I then used the 'Warp tool' to curve and shape the text. I needed to do this to make the text stand out around the focal point which is the photo of the singer. I chose the 'ark' the text to ensure it was both readable and visible on the beige textured back round. I also used this tool for the inside cover. I placed descriptive words of the singer around the out of focus image, and used the warp tool to shape each work in a different way. This makes this otherwise boring image come to life.

After experimenting with different styles and shapes of text for the front cover. I chose to move the image down and use a straight text. I found this looked more professional. However i still made sure it stood out by using the text in bold.

I also placed a bar code, recyclable logo, the record company logo, and a parental advisory on the back cover of the digipak. I did this to add to the authenticity of the digipak, and as they are all legally necessary in order to sell a digipak.

Here I have also added an imaged for the C.D insert. I have used a sepia image under what will be perspex, This will make the image stand out much more. Now all images are correctly in place. I filled the two spine colours with a metal grey colour, to tie in all of the different aspects of the colour scheme.