Ancillary Task: Making The Digipack

After I had created my digipack poster, I decided to create my digipack.

• I began by importing the same image I used for the digipack poster into Serif draw. As I had already edited it, I didn’t have to do this again. However, I did have to crop it as it was originally an A$ image but for the digipack template, the front cover was square. I also added the institutional information on again in the same positions as the digipack poster.

• Then I imported the picture I had decided to use for the back cover. I then did a similar process with this image and edited it so that the only thing in colour on the image was the red ribbon in Liv’s hair. I then cropped it so that majority of the picture was the background of the woods. This meant that when I added the song titles, the white contrasted against the darker background.

• I then added the image for the left cover. I used the image with the ribbon on the hands and again made the image black and white other than the ribbon. This continued the red theme from the other images.

• For the CD case side of the digipack, I decided that I wanted both the CD and the background to be plain black. However, I wanted there to be an image that would be revealed when the CD is removed from the case. Therefore, I added in the image of the red roses. To get this as a circle, I backgrounded the image onto a circle that I added using the ‘shapes’ button. I then used the ‘shape builder’ tool to blend them together and deleted the image outside of the circle.

• However, compared to the other images on the digipack, the strong theme or fed in the image as opposed to the subtle red in the others was too much. Therefore, I added a circle of white on the foreground to the image and reduced the opacity. This made the image darker and therefore conformed to the subtle red theme.

• Right inside cover, I added an image of Liv that has roses around her. I then made the image black and white and changed the rode to be red instead of pink. Also because the image was much lighter than the others I had used, I reduced the brightness and increased the shadows in the Photolab to continue the running theme.

• For the final image I used the image of Liv which utilised light to make shapes on her face. I edited this so it was darker and then used the colour retouch tool to edit her lips to be red. This was difficult as the original image was black and white so the lips originally looked brown when the red filter was added on top. However, eventually I decided to increase the brightness levels on the lips to allow the section to look red as opposed to brown

• Finally, I added the spaces for the spine between the covers.