PRODUCTION

ACTUALLY STARTING OUR DIGIPAKS: 

This is the first time i went on Photoshop with my real pictures to make our real ancillary products. at first i was so lost, but as soon as i got it open i knew what to do. I first opened up the template and i had the pictures that o took over the weekend at the ready and i knew exactly what i was going to do and which picture i was going to use for the front panel of my digipak. At first i was going to leave the picture as the original and just crop it down to the part that i need, but then one of my friends was using iphoto and it looked really good so i decided to take my picture and edit it so that it looks better. 

At first i just went through all the different effects
and none of the other effects really suited my theme,
then i came across 'boost colour' i tired it and it looked
really good; it basically enhanced all the colours in the
picture and made  it more vibrant and professional. As
you can see from the first picture to this picture it is a
big improvement   

I then went on to the adjust button; this is where
you can check the levels of  exposure, contrast, saturation.
I played around with it for a while and saw if it looked nice
or not, i ended up just moving it a little to the left or right, i
didn't move it too much because i didn't want to drastically
change the picture. You could also choose choose if you 
wanted to put a tint on your picture; I was sceptic about this
but i tried it and i didn't like it, until i tried a puplish tint and
it looked nice so i put on the tint. i think that the result of 
using this software has made my digipak a lot better.  

I saved the picture and then opened it up in Photoshop and cropped the parts that i didn't want, then placed it on the front panel. After I have put it in I looked at the back and thought ok now to do the back panel. I had taken the picture on the left especially for this panel, so i opened it up and put the picture in its place. However when Rebbecca cam over she said that i shouldn't put a picture of my artist on the back because it is not conventional for the back panel of a digipak to have a picture of the artist on it. This made me really stuck on what to do because I didn't take any pictures of anything else apart from one with my artist in them. 



Afterwards, Rebbecca told me to try and use a plain back ground and work on it; so i tried this. I was trying to do something that would link in with the front panel, i didn't want it to look random. I put a lilac background because of the purple tint that i had added on the front, i then thought what could i add to make it look really nice and would stick with my theme really nicely.... i was stuck for a while but then i remembered that stamp tool that i had used on my practise digipak of Dan; I remembered there being leafs. so i tried someleafs, it looked ok, so i added different sizes and a variety of matching colours.