Reflecting on AS' Digipak

Back in AS, my group and I had to designed an individual album cover (digipak) for our artists Rizzle Kick. As this was my first time using Adobe Photoshop, I was unfamiliar with some of the tools of the programme. Here is the digipak that I designed during the summer last year:

 

Rahi and I were the two main artists for our single, 'Down with the trumpet'. I had an idea to have me on the front cover and Rahi on the back to illustrate a binary type of bond between the two. The content of a digipak is shown above- it contains an image of the artists, the name of the artists and the name of the album. However the font used in this design is unreadable and the colour scheme is not matching therefore breaking the conventions of designing a digipak. The information within the spine of the digipak is accurate but again the font is not matching to the image and there is no clear distinction between the spine and the front cover. Although it is fitting to our genre,Hip hop/R'n'B, the quality seemed to be lost whilst I was resizing the text. On the back cover, I added the barcode of the CD, the record label and the CD writing and the bottom right. I did not, however, add the track list of the album which is essential for designing a digipak.

 

Looking back at this design, I have improved my skills with using Photoshop. I learnt how to resize images without losing the quality and I also learnt how to add filters to images to give a deeper effect. I have a better understanding of what the essentials are for designing a digipak such as adding the track list and having a matching colour scheme etc. Here is an example of my latest design of my digipak for our artist , Deseree Diamond.