Digipak: Making the digipak

We will be using Photoshop CS4, a program none of our group have experience with, so for the last few weeks we have been playing around with it and finding new ways to edit material. This helped us when it came to creating our final pieces. When making the digipak the first thing we needed was a background that should be a sought of screwed up rough paper effect. When trying to make our own version of this I came up with the following example, but this was not to the high quality we wanted so decided to choose one already made, on the right of the version I made below:

Using photoshop we decided to keep in our bands current theme of paper mache, as the masks are in the music video, and crumpled cut out effects with animals. Using google images we found appropriate shots of wild animals, to symbolise the danger and fierce style of Scarlet Harlots music, and diamonds. We placed these on the background as a second layer as seen below:

We cut out our photos very crudely to make sure there was still a bit of edge, and added effects such as cut out and faded pastels to the animals, diamonds, and characters. We finally had to finish by adding the barcode, information on where the CD was made and font. We decided to use all different types of font for each individual letter or word, to again show how wild the bands music is. The finished back cover is seen below after adding all these things: