DigiPack: Album Cover

I started to try and design some CD cover photos that we could used for our album in time. This is the original image that I started off with.

Here is what my first sample looked like. I decided not to use this because i think it is too boring for our artist 'Grace Starr' but i think the effect looks good due to the electo/pop genre of artist Grace is. Therefore i went on to create this design as i think it looks better with a lot more going on.

 

I then added 4 of the same shots and flipped and reversed them so it looks more effective. I then blurred together the images so they look more put together.

 

I then went and added our album title 'In Time' to make it more professional and add the final touches.

 

Here is the back page I made of the CD Cover.

 

I then went for a whole new look, a completely different idea. Which encounters the girly side to Grace. Here is the first draft. I added an effect over the top of the original image to make it feel more soft and cute.

 I then thought about how I wanted the album title to appear, and as the effect is soft and the overall image I want to give off is cute, I feel as though the title should be soft and not bold. Therefore I added the title in white, enlarged it and placed it in the centre and changed the transparency. This is the outcome.

 Then I needed to add Grace's name to the album, so people who are unaware of her can look at the album on the shelf and decide whether they want to buy it or not. This is why the album is so important as for people who are not familiar with this singer, this is their first impression and first attempt to draw the audience in.

I then decided to play around a bit with the font, and add a boarder around the text. I prefer the design before due to it feeling a lot softer than with a black boarder.

 Here is the same album cover but in a black and white font, but I think the colour copy is more successful. 

I also decided to add another affect on the original image to see if I could find a better effect, this effect seems to bring out a brighter image to show the electro/pop image.

 

Next we decided to have a key link for all of our digipack photos. Here is the final album cover: