Creation of Digipak Back Cover

After completing our Digipak front cover we then swiftly moved onto the creation of the back cover.

We firstly began by opening up a blank Photoshop document which was of the same size as our album cover and used the droplet tool to replicate the same colour of grey from our front cover to place onto the back using the paint bucket tool in order to cover the entire surface area. Using the same colour, I feel, is highly important to ensure continuity runs throughout the digipak as a whole. Next we used dafont.com to select our font and type in the song names to preview what it would appear like before actually placing it on our back cover. After all agreeing that we were happy with our finds, the titles were pasted into the same document and made bolder (again with the paint bucket tool) to guarantee that they were 100% visible to our audience. We decided to have our font as black as this was the same colour as our front cover which created consistency. We also felt that black was very sharp and professional which is exactly what we were aiming for as we want our up and coming artist to be taken seriously. 

We wanted to use the same idea of having geometric shapes scattered over the back of the cover and eventually breaking off into 'fragments', hence the name of the album (running with the theme for consistency). To do this, we copied and pasted the shape into the document, rubbing out any excess lines if we did not want a hexagon (only a triangle). The gradient tool allowed us to fade in the colour so that it could seamlessly blend into the next- this created quite a rainbow-like appearance but we made sure to keep the colours rather muted (the same as the front) as the shapes are only there as a 'decoration' so to speak and to compliment the track list which I feel this successfully does. 

This time, the shapes go down and bend around the track list, continuing towards the bottom right hand corner which is a different composition in comparison to the front cover. We made some of the shapes break off near the top and then overlayed the text to change things up a little more visually. I think this technique is really successful as it differs the dynamics of the digipak- adding something a bit more creative and less uniformed.

Lastly we just had to add the legal information which included the copyright details and the artist's logo which appears on each of her auxiliary products as it represents her brand. The font remained in black to highlight the professionalism of the album design and artist herself. It also matched the track list and does therefore not look out of place at all. The barcode we included made it look as realistic as possible. 

Our final back cover