PRODUCTION

On Wednesday i went into the library and used one of the mac's to carry on with my digipak front panel and back panel. As you know i was stuck with what i should do for my back ground because the plain purple background with the leaves just wasn't what i wanted and i didn't think that it was good enough. When i was at home the night before i was looking at all the pictures and i saw one that i took and it was supposed to be for the blog just to document what i was doing when i went out to take pictures for the digipak. i looked at this picture and instantly new that it would be perfect for me to use as my background for my back panel.

I then went on the filter button and made some adjustments because i needed it to look that same style as that front panel, so i equalized it. this gave the picture the same effects as the front panel picture. i was very happy with the result. i REALLY preferred this over the plain purple background with the leaves. 

 when i was editing it i didn't know what my titles were because i left the sheet with the names on it at home, so i just made up random titles because i wanted to see how it would look. 

I then put individual leaves around the track list because
i felt like it looked lonely by itself. 

I Hand to make so many layers because you couldn't move one leaf without moving everything, so i decided that if i put each leaf on a different layer then i can move each of them in different places separately without moving all of them. this took some time and i also had to find the right leaf for the place that i wanted it to be, but in the end it came out really nice.  

This is where the leaves at the bottom are placed. 

I had a really difficult time with the Title because the colours that i had chosen for my colour scheme merged into the leaves and you couldn't really see it well, so i had to look for a colour that wasn't random but had to stand out. I found the cream colour that you see below, which is the closet to the theme and stood out. i don't really like it that much, I prefer if I could have something else but this is alright for the title because the title is supposed to stand out and be bold so that it catches the readers eyes. 


I then had to think about where to place the album name, i also had to consider whether to put it in CAPITALS or lowercase; i ended up going with lowercase because it didn't detract away from the artist name but also stood out, and i chose a good size to put it. I moved it several times, in several different places underneath the artist name and it was between the first picture and the second picture below. I decided to go with the the bottom one; it looked more together, more wholesome and in its place. 

I remembered after that the track listing that we want to use is from one of KT Tunstall's albums. so i went online and found the album; here is the track listing. however even though she has great names for tracks, some of them looked wired on my track list therefore I didn't use all of them. and I added 1 of my own tracks. 

This is a close up of my track list
 so you can see what it says.

This is how the back looked after i had corrected
the track listing and put all the leaves in place  

This is the spine: I have decided to leave it a plain colour. I tried to cover it with the front picture and i tried to cover it with the back picture but they both looked weird on the spine so i decided to leave it plain. this turned out to be a good idea because the artist name and album name looks very prominent and eyes catching on a plain background. i have decided to do the writing in deep red because it matches the shades of different colours on the leaves on the front panel .