BACK COVER CONSTRUCTION

CROPPING THE IMAGE

The first thing to do was to select the image we wished to use. Having done this we cropped the image in order to cause it to became square as digipak covers are square. Then we adjusted the brightness by using the brightness/contrast tool however when doing this we felt the image lost to much colour so we therefore decided not to use this effect. Instead we started to test and try different types of effects in order to see which one would portray best the ambience and atmosphere we wanted to create. Once we had tested and tried a number of effects we eventually settled for the Dark strokes effect, not only because it portrayed the atmosphere we wanted to create but also because it allowed us to keep a constant continuity as we used this effect on the inside cover.

WHAT THE IMAGE LOOKED LIKE WHEN WE ADJUSTED THE BRIGHTNESS

THE DARK STROKE EFFECT WHICH WE EVENTUALLY SETTLED FOR...

When looking at other CD covers we found that the US price was listed as well as the UK price, we therefore decided to do this on our cover to again improve the professionalism of the cover. In order to get the correct price US and UK price we went on to the US and UK version of the iTunes website, on these websites we also found the names of the songs within the album which enabled us to check if we had correctly spell the words.