Making the Front Panel

The pictures I went to take with Renee the first time didn’t really turn out so well hence I ended up not being able to use much. That’s why I had only had the back panel so far. After I went to take my pictures again I was able to move on with my digipack. The next section I attempted was the front panel.

My mock up idea for my digipack was this:

So I put this picture of my artist on the front cover: (Insert picture) and then cut my artist out the background.

I decided on this picture because in the other 

potential shot for my font cover, it looked like she was 

uncomfortable. In this picture she looked more relaxed and I 

liked the way her arm was leaning because when I put her on the 

guitar it looked realistic.

This was the front cover as just after i put the image in.

I tilted her to make it look more as if she was sitting on the 

guitar and pushed her a bit further back.

The next thing I had to do was to add in shadows so it looks as if she is actually on the guitar, rather than that I just copied and pasted a separate image. I had to look at her and see where the direction of light was coming from. When I discovered that I was coming from the right I used the paintbrush tool and softly drew in some back lines. 

To make the shadows soft I had to after change the opacity of the markings.

Also used Filter – Blur - Gaussian Blur and change the radius of the blur to suit the desirable shadow placement to make it actually look like shadows. I used Gaussian Blur so that I could give the shadows a fade to have a soft edge and not so hard. The shadows make the image also look more 3D. In the end I put in shadows for legs, fingers, leaning arm and where she was sitting.

Adjusting the Blur

After putting my artist on the guitar I added in the font to see had it would work with it.

Here the font looks faint and it doesn't stand out as much 

as it needs to

So I used the effects in Photoshop to try make my font stand out more.

I played around with the different font styles to see which one worked the best. I chose Outer glow because it make it come off of the page more and helped it stand out. 

But I didn’t think that was enough.

I continued to played around and added the Bevel and Emboss
effect because it really allowed the lettering to stand out.

This how it looked like when I was done and had added in a few of the floral graphics.

However, I showed Rebecca what I done with the font today in class and she informed me that she didn’t believe it stand out enough, and I agree. So I am going to go home and try out more effects and see if I could somehow make the font work conventionally, then asked a teacher advise on the improvements.