Construction of the Digipack: Front Cover

We decided as a group to start work first on the front cover of our digipack as ultimately this is whats going to grab the attention of our target audience and draw them in to buying our product.





As we have previously mentioned, our front cover idea consists of the two artist silhouettesAs we have previously mentioned, our front cover idea consists of the two artist silhouettes

The programs we have on the macs at our school are for the moment limited, so the program we have chosen to create our digipack on is fireworks.

We started by taking a photograph of the two artists standing back to back. We realised we could have took the two pictures separately however we felt that we would get a more realistic image if they were in the same photo. The sizing of each silhouette would also be more realistic.










We then opened the picture in the program fireworks and using the wand tool, we were able to erase the background.













The next step was to crop the two images and split them so the silhouettes were seperate. Then using the paint brush, we filled in the images so they were all black. We also liked the idea of leaving Joe's shirt white, so then to compromise with the image of Louise, we created her a pearly necklace. This goes with the black and white theme of our music video and also compliments the antique/old fashioned theme we are going for.








After looking closely at the images, we realised that the white of the shirt and pearl necklace didn't quite stand out, so we made them whiter using the paintbrush tool.

















The next stage on the front cover, after the completion of the silhouettes was to create our frames. Using images we had taken from our trip to the art gallery we found the frame to use and using the eraser tool got rid of all of the image except the frame.

After editing the one frame I just duplicated the image so then I had two images appear onto the screen. All that I then needed to do was add in the silhouettes I had previously created and the main image for the digipack was complete. My next post will show the 3 possible designs we have created.