Back Cover and Inside Designs for digi-pak

Print screens for Back cover and images for the inside of my digi-pak

This is the first print screen for the development of the back of my CD cover, which as important as the front as it informs the audience of its content, and it legally justifies it self with its copyright and allows it's sales to take place with the bar code. I used Photoshop CS6 to develop the the back cover, I began my opening, a new canvas in the correct dimensions. I then filled the first layer with black, as you can see the canvas is black. I found this a bit bland so I added a bit of noise/texture, I went onto 'Filter', 'Pixelate' and 'Colour Halftone'. This added small coloured speckles to the background.

Some back covers just have a list of the songs, however I find this a bit visually boring so I took inspiration from a older back cover that does not do this called: 'Doken Tooth & Nail', but I wanted to modernise this. So I began by choosing a slick serif font called 'Perpetua Titling...' this looked good especially blown up large.

I wanted the name of the band to stand out more and the type to have more form and dimension so I duplicated the first layer of the type, so there where two of the same words, I changed the colour of the second word, and then changed its occupancy options from normal to 'multiply' this created a cool three dimensional effect as you can see. 

I wanted convergence between the front cover and the back as you can establish the front is very metallic, a lot of gold and silver effects are used. So I added these exact effects to the type using similar blending options, this made the type stand out much more.

I then used the 'shape tool' on a new layer, to make a rectangular shape, for the next words, as I wanted to make a 'positive' not 'negative' type effect.

Again so that there was convergence between both the cover and the back, I filled the rectangle with the same gold blending effect I had made for my front cover, this made a great looking effect and I have not come across this on many other CD back covers in my research. 

I then added the type, I chose a different font for the name of the CD, as I felt that the words needed to connect with the type. So I wanted something bold, I chose 'Elephant' as the font stands out well. I also changed the spacing between each character and spread them out more. 

I then began to type out lists of the songs on the CD, to inform audience of what they would get if they purchase the CD.

I then began typing out the copy right, and legalities of the CD to do this I looked at the layouts of other back cover, and how they wright their copy right. So I did the same but added the bands details, and producers,  making it small enough to read.

I then added a bar code, obviously I did not code the thing myself, as the data of this Cd is not going to be need to be tracked by retailers. So I found one online and pasted it onto the back, however if this where to be released to retailers I would pay to get the bar code.

I then began to wright on the spine of the cover, I added similar details that other Cd's add on their Cd's  such as the Cd's item number, The name of the band/artist and the name of the CD. 

I did the same on the other side, I also added rulers and alignments throughout my designing process; as this makes the design look professional, as well as balanced and symmetrical. 

My Final Back Cover

Images on the inside of my CD cover, that I have taken and edited myself, and have not been attained from the internet.