Digipack Inside Of Album (CD)

Original Image of Hemals Eye

To create this image it started off with a picture of my partners eye. He is wearing a red contact lens in which already gives the demonic effect. I then cropped the eye and put it onto a black background, after which I added several layer masks but individually each so that I could use the gradient tool to fade out the eye. After fading it, I realised it didn't quite go as the normal eye photo bled into a black background, and so to have the image look complete I added the effect of 'rough pastels' which partially cartoonised the eye which enhanced the whole images look.

Inside Cover Final

Feedback:

- I think the image goes really well with the genre of rock and metal, it's so easily identifiable with it as it seems to be a demonic image. (18 year old female)

- I like the use of the demonic image, especially on the red background as this ties in with the colour theme throughout the front and back covers. (17 year old male)

- The goat type image has been associated with rock and demonic images a lot, I think this was a clever choice to use it as it makes the genre easily identifiable. (16 year old male)

Inside Cover Work In Progress

This is a screen grab of the final image of the inside cover and the image I used to create it. The original image is a tattoo on Hemals (my partner in the band) back, to get just the tattoo on its own was very hard. I ended up deciding to cut the tattoo out as a square then used several effects which whited out everything except the tattoo. Then once I had just the tattoo on a white background I put a dark red neon glow onto it the added the posterization filter and the sponge filter to produce this final image.

My Magazine Advert

Feedback:
-Simple yet effective I love the use of the colours and how they amplify the image. I would definitely be enticed to buying this album after seeing this magazine advert (17 year old female)

-It looks so realistic with the reviews from recognised rock magazines, this is reinforced by the iTunes logo and the Warner Bros website, all of which you'd see on a genuine magazine advert (18 year old male)

-I think you've really captured the conventions of the genre, through the use of the 'pentagrams' and the text. The faded image on the red to black background is a simple yet effective and in my opinion looks very professional ( 26 year old male)

Digipak-Back Of Album Finished

Feedback:

- The red and black used ties in with the colour theme of the front cover, I think it looks really good. I think its realistic and would definitely be believable if I saw it alongside other albums in stores. (18 year old female)

- I love the way the titles of each individual song are placed around the 'pentagram', it's a really unique way of having them instead of the traditional 1. 2. 3. etc (17 year old female)

- This is really realistic, the use of the Warner Bros logo and the websites makes it look like a genuine album. The text, colour and use of the pentagram really help the audience to clearly identify the genre that is rock/metal. The lead singer in the middle of the album is a really good effect, I like how he is faded and you can just about make out his eyes this adds a mysterious effect to the cover which again ties in with the genre. (18 year old male) 

Work In Progress-Digipak-Back of album

This is a few screengrabs of my work in progress for the back of my album. It shows the steps that I took to fade my picture in the middle. I did this by firstly bringing in my photo then rescaling it to the size I desired. After this I added a layer mask, I did this so I could use the gradient tool which I knew would fade the photo out, then it was just a case of getting it right. After getting the effect I wanted, I added in a barcode and began to start on the titles of the songs on the album. I firstly put the songs all around the pentagram but then decided to have them rotated accordingly so that they ran along the lines of the pentagram so that the audience would have to rotate the album to read all the titles.

Digipak- My Album Cover

Feedback:

- It goes with the genre well, I like the clear relationship between the font and the name of the band. The colour scheme is well done with the use of black and red continually. (17 year old male)

- I like how the background fades from grey to black. The font combines well with the name of the artist.   The design on the hands helps me to identify the genre.

- I like the colour scheme and how the black and red are continuously used. Even on the artists, one of which is in black and white and the other featuring red, I think this links to the genre very well. The text stands out and relates to the genre very well.

Digipak Work In Progress

This is the work in progress of my front cover. Firstly we took individual pictures with a similar pose, then after uploading them I came across my first difficulty which was that the pictures were the exact same stance. So to overcome this I vertically flipped the photo of myself (in red) so that we appeared back to back.

On the photo on the left I made it black and white before bringing it into the main image, I then aded a filter (posterization) to the image to give us the hazed look you can see. Then I simply used a gradient for the background which was simple but effective. 

The text was 'Bleeding Cowboys' which I downloaded online from a free font website called 1001freefonts.com I found this font to be very fitting to my chosen genre. I then added a wind filter onto it and put an inner shadow through it to give it the two coloured effect.