Research - Practicing creating a digipak

Today we got to create a digipak to practice our skills using photoshop. We were taught basic skills like opening files, adding texts, cropping, cutting the background etc. We got to choose any celebrity so i chose Nicole Scherzinger. I tried to stick the do's and don't's list we were given. I used a close up image of the celebrities face so they can easily be recognised. I also stuck with a basic font style and used the same font for the celebrities name, album title and the track list on the back. The artists name is also bigger than the title of the album title which i noticed all album covers do.

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Research - Analysis of three magazines

Ancillary: Analysis of 3 digipaks genre

Ancillary: Analysis of 3 digipaks genre

On this page i have gathered 3 digipaks these include Jessie J, Wiz Khalifa and also tinnie tempah all these chosen artists link best with our chosen genre of music which i have then analysed examples are shown below.

Opposite i have analysed the digipak of jessie jay, their album/ digipak follows the conventions in which i plan on using when creating mine. On this i like the way in which the colours and fonts are not to complicated and the way in which it links to each panel as we see black white and gold are the main colours used. The main image is one convention i liked as it is close and clear showing us the artist in detail which is what everyone likes to see. The background colour and images also continue inside the panel as we have another image of the artist followed with the CD

I had chose to anaylise tinnie tempah. This album/ digipak was different from the 2 above as it was shown to be more crowded. My favourite part on this digipak was the front cover where we can clearly see the artist followed by the name of the artist then below the name of the album named 'invincible' the background is also not to complicated so we can focus on the artist instead of what the background is showing which is important when making cover for any album. We are also given more information on the artist at the back, that the other 2 do not give.

Wiz Khalifa is another artist which i felt suits our genre best. The album/ digipak is very different from the one above as we see the colours are not best matched and the artist is also not shown to be at a BCU. The track list and fonts used are clear allowing us to read what to expect in the album. One aspect i disliked was the colour scheme as i thought it didn't match what we saw in the front cover. The image at the front is also clear where we see the artists face

Research - Analysis of three digipaks

Research - Software

The main software that i will use is photoshop. This is a software that allows you to edit pictures easily and add effects. It has many tools that make it easy to do simple tasks like cropping a picture or brightening the picture. Photoshop is a software that i have used before so i am familiar with it. To create the digipak i will be open up a digipak template to get me started and give me a guideline.

The other software that i will be using is Quark Express. It is a software that allows us to add text, Photoshop already have this tool but it will be easier to use Quark. The software has a range of font styles so we will be able to try out different styles to see what goes with our digipak and what will fit in with our genre. I haven't used this software before but i feel that it will be easier than Photoshop because with Photoshop you have create many layers which get's annoying.

PLANNING: Attempt of creating a digipak with photoshop

PLANNING: Attempt of creating a digipak with photoshop

In todays lesson i used photoshop as a practice in creating a digipak as an idea. I took any image of a celebrate in this case was Jessica Lowndess and i used one of her images to create the front cover of the digipack taking on board the sheet of dos and dont's. The front cover was a close up of the artist so that people could recognise who it was.

PLANNING- Taken Photographs for the ancillary product

PLANNING- Taken Photographs for the ancillary product