The layering process of the digipak


The first thing I did was search on the internet to find a template for an album digipak I then overlaid my front cover design image onto it in the first box of the template. I had already designed the digipak cover from making the magazine advertisement for the digipaks release. I print screened it, cropped the image and transferred it into my digipaks photoshop document.

I then got an image of a church window from the same church as the background picture of the front of the digipak was taken from (taken by myself). I put it into black and white as I didn't want the digipack to be too colourful as I felt the horror/thriller themes of my digipack would be lost. I put a translucent square above it so that any text that was of a monochrome colour would be seen, and so that you could still see the background. I then added the picture of the candle seen in one of my music videos, this is as candles are often seen in churches and I thought the smoke made it a fitting aesthetic to go with my thriller themed digipak. I also darkened the background of the other side of the inside of my digipak cover so that you could see the cd, and that it would stand out. The cd is a picture of an eye as I thought it would be a great idea to have the pupil be the centre hole of the cd (I explain why I use the image of an eye in another post). I then added some extra smoke to the candle to make it look more visually pleasing.

I then made the hole of the cd and found an image on the internet of a cd and edited it so that I could have the inner rim of the cd, you see this when you buy a cd. I then added text to the cd of the digipak and text to the back cover of the digipak. On the back, you will see all of Hozier's songs from the album the song 'Take me to church' came from. Finally, I finished some shading around the cd to make it look more 3D like it had a shadow, and put some text on the inside of the digipak next to the candle to fill up the empty space.

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