Back Cover Digipak

I have developed the back cover for the digipak, and it is almost finished, the only thing that needs to be finalised is the font being used. After looking at other back covers I have made sure that I have included essential elements in the small print such as, the fold that binds the CD cover on the side, the record company information, website information (promotional, official websites) and even the bar code.
It took me a while to decide on the finished product of the back cover as I did different effects to see what looked the best, however, I also looked at other covers which are the same genre of our music which also helped me to decide as I wanted to use conventional elements, so that the audience can relate to the product.

At first I had to choose the right background image, I had this background in mind, until I tried using it. I decided that the photo of our artist didn't really go with the background, but here is a rough cut of what I was planning to do. It is only rough as I didn't go ahead with it because I didn't think it looked as effective.

Here are some of my rough designs where I chose a better background to suit the artist photograph:

 

 Additionally, to get to this final stage of the photo I had to combine two photographs that had been taken. I initially did this because the photo with our artist in wasn't very focused which did let the photo down quite a lot. But I also did this because of the conventional settings of back covers, I wanted to have the artist set to the side of the cover, so that the track listing could be used on the other side, and it wouldn't be interfering with the image. But then after I had layered the two images I noticed that this allowed me to create better effects, as I was able to chose one layer and effect it rather than changing the effect of the whole photo. The only trouble I came across was cutting out the artist from the original photo as this had to be done precisely so that it would look effective.

Gemma