CD Cover development

The outer cover

this is the front and back of our CD cover at the moment George has started to do the lettering and the fine details such as the Columbia and Sony logo. we will be able to put the image onto the CD cover when we film later tonight as we will be able to use a digital camera to take photos!

Then after looking at Miles'  CD cover and changing the design of our own CD, we decided to go with the pink and white colour scheme as it would be more suitable and would match our website to make it a complete package.

We also found that when we placed our images we had to move the title quicksand, because otherwise it wouldn't fit in properly, and the cover would look very amateurish and the text would be hard to read. So after re-arranging the text we replaced the images.

We chose to use these images because they suited the style of Miles Kane being very simply laid out, but after taking another look at previous Miles Kane covers we decided it was too colourful to match him as an artist and the website that we had designed. So we decided to change the images through manipulation on photoshop so that they would be black and white.

After editing the opacity and changing the colours to be black and white, we added layers over the originally placed images, allowing for some of the original colour to leak through. We thought this made quite a good effect and decided that we liked this as a finished product for our outside covers of the digipak.

The inner cover

This was the template we were given at the beginning, and though we had some trouble trying to figure out what to do with the inside cover we eventually came up with some ideas we thought would suit Miles Kane.

We then chose two pictures that we felt were good quality and would fit with the idea that we were formulating. Since Miles Kane is a solo artist who focuses a lot on his own performance we thought that these images would be best to use.

We then thought it was still too colourful and that we needed to change the image colours to match not only the website but the outer covers. So we changed the left hand image by over laying it with their layers that had effects added to them and the opacities lowered. The first thing we did was add a dissolved layer over the top.

After that we added a layer that had a glow effect and the colours converted to black and white. We thought that this looked good and it fitted the outer layers of the digipak.

We noticed that there was no follow through with the pink that was on the front covers and the website so we added a pink layer and reduced the opacity so that it gave the image a pink filter which we thought looked decent and linked well with the colour scheme we had chosen.

We thought that so far our cover looked quiet good and the pink contrasted well with the black and white on the right hand side. We then decided that we needed to edit the CD because white wasn't the right choice for it, as Miles Kane's own CD was plain black, and had his name on it.

 We spent a while thinking about what we could do with the CD since we didn't want it to just be plain as it wouldn't fit the criteria of the board or match our designs very well. After some thought we decided that since Miles Kane likes to promote himself as a solo artist that plays his own instruments, an image of him singing on the CD would be a good idea.

We felt that leaving the image with its original colourings wouldn't suit our theme so we reduced the opacity of the image and added a colour burn to it, so that it would stand out from the cover. We thought that the effect looked quite good but the colourings were too faded.

We enhanced the colours by overlaying the CD image with a black circle shaped that fitted over the top. It made the colours of the under image brighter more defined. We though it contrasted well with the back and white image that it covered. We also added a smaller white circle and reduced the opacity so that it looked like a proper CD.

After looking at the cover we had so far we decided that the left hand side  needed something else because it looked too empty. So we looked at some other CD covers to see what we could add and after some searching we decided that the lyrics to the song we were doing for our music video would be a good idea.

We had an idea for the left hand side then but we needed to make it fit in well with the rest of the digipak design. After some shuffling and re-shuffling we chose a white font as it was the one colour that fitted in well with our colour scheme and could be read on the pink filter. We also chose to lay out the text in one  on running line as it meant we could fit all the lyrics in and it didn't leave too many blank spaces. 

This was the cover we had when we decided that it looked good enough and fitted well with the rest of our digipak.