Ancillary Products - Design Production work

THE DO'S AND THE DONT'S!!!

1. Clear Fonts:  Use fonts that everyone can read, fonts that are suitable for your chosen genre, fonts that go well together. Not fonts that make it look pretty but impossible to read. 

2. Suitable Colours  3 COLOURS MAXIMUM, Colours that also go very well together. Do NOT go crazy on the colours, Making people feel as if they've jumped into a packet of skittles, HOW DARE YOU!!

3.Clear Photos   Using photos that are clear and in focus is just basic Common Sense GUYS. Make the photos the appropriate size for your digipak. Do not use a photo that is hard to look at. 

4. Rule of thirds  Follow the rule of thirds. ITS THAT SIMPLE. 

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 Include the bar-code, date, copyright information, title of the album (Obviously), artist name (Duhh), Record company logo,  website and the artist website.

5. DO NOT use unnecessary effects, use effects according to your genre. Keep it simple but UNIQUE. 

6.  Dont Stretch your image, DO NOT make your artist un-proportionate, THEY WILL NOT LIKE IT. If the image isn't the right size find one that is the right size.  

7.  DO NOT put text across the artists face, As an upcoming artist people would want to see what YOU look like and not how fancy the text looks. 

8.  And finally DO NOT use photos on every single panel. Not all digipaks have photos on all of the panels, Personally I think it looks tacky. Follow the CODES&CONVENTIONS correctly when looking at the genre linked to your artist and use the ideas in your digipak. 

!!!!DO YOUR RESEARCH CAREFULLY!!!!