Creating my front cover for digipak

I decided to use the same image that I used for my website as I thought that it would be easier for the

audience to recognise the artist as they would have been familiar with the image from the website.

I started to edit my picture on photoshop as you  can see in the image above. I chose the colour red as the albums name is called 'Words From My Heart' and a heart is associated with the colour red so I thought it would be a good match. Also, because the artist is mainly wearing blue and red and blue mix well together.

After researching and looking at other album covers, I realised that my album cover was quite dull and boring with the white background so I tried to change the background colour but realised that I had to cut the image out and paste it back onto the page in order to do so. I did not want to do this because I wanted to keep the yellow shading around the left side of his head and by cutting the image out I would of had to cut the shading out as well.

To overcome my problem of the Cd front cover being dull and boring, I decided to use the photo editing site called Picmonkey to edit the picture and make it look more appealing.

 I chose to use this background as it gave the picture a more glorifying look.





 I was very happy with this background in the end as I thought it made the cover look a lot more professional than it did before. I decided to use Picmonkey to edit the text on there as well as they had more creative styles of fonts on there and i could use the features to make the text underneath the 'Words From My Heart' bit turn upside down to make it look like a reflection of the writing.