Digipak our Fourth Draft

Making our digipak more professional and realistic, we knew we would have to include a barcode and the tracklisting to the outside cover. Using a tutorial that a group member found online he was able to create a barcode which meant he wouldn't be using a real life one and had created it himself.
From a previous post i have wrote about desigining a font which we could use, this is the font we decided on;

Using this font we used the tracklisting rom her passerby EP and 2 songs which she released as singles. We decided to add a bonus track as well which was a live performance of her singing at the BT Tower.

From previous research we felt we needed to add a small section onto the digipak regarding copyright issues, we felt that this would make the whole thing look more professional. We also decided to include her website URL, and created a made up 'AM Recordings Ltd.'  We made this font smaller than the rest, and didn't use the stroke feature in Photoshop, this meant that it was still readable but wasn't eye catcing and wouldn't take the focus away from other aspects of the didipak.

The other text however ont he cover uses the stroke feature, this means the text is bordered making it stand out more.

In order to use thestroke feature, a text layer needed to be created, after this we had to select the fx button at the bottom of the layers window. We then had to select the bottom option of stroke, which opened a new window.

Below is an example of writing with and without the stoke tool;

It is clear that the stroke tool enables the text to stand out from the background, it makes it more bold and eye catching. Without the stroke tool being used it means that the text is lost to the background. By using the stroke tool on our digipak it means that the writing will be more clear.

Below is the image of our digipak with the tracklisting on;

All that we have left to do on our digipak is to complete the spines.