The photo shop work is proving to be a bit of a struggle so far. Though i did manage to do a bit of practice work on photoshop the other day, creating the real product for my artist is provng to be hard. Not only am i finding it hard to use the features but i am also finding it hard to come up with CD cover ideas. I am using a digipack template to understand the format of a digipack and to know exactly how many sides i will need to make. The digipack template was shown to me by bradely. He explained to me that it would help me a lot to know the kind of images to make and it would guide me on size measurements. The template is just one that we found on google but is proving very helpful to bring in some clarity on how these digipacks are to be made. This is the picture of the template that i am using:
As you can see the template provides guidance on how big my image should be. The template also shows me how the digipack will be set out and so therefore how many pages of the digipack is going to be needed. This template definetly helped me understand what i am creating much more but i am still stuck for ideas on how to go about creating my digipack and what would look good.
One of the greatest challenges in making this digipack seems to be with the pictrues that i have. I am still not 100% satisfied with them. I feel that when taking the first set and teh second set of pictrues we only considered the website and not the digipack. When opening all the pictures that we did have of our artist i felt that there wernt any real innovative pictures taken that i could do much with on photoshop. Many of the pictuures were very much, a close up shot on his face or an instrument. The shots seemed quite basic and simple and there was no real picture that was taken from a innovative angle or a shot that looked really intersting. I realised that at the time of taking these pictures, this was the desired effect that we took a picture that represented our artist Ed Sheeran for the meek and modest personality that he ad. In order to do this we went for simple shots without considering in mind the digipack. In my opinion the digipack images ought to be slightly different as it is a photoshop program and we need to have the opportunity to edit it. I believe that we could have taken a picture from a different angle and captured more of his body by doing a medium shot or something similar to that. I think this would have given the digipack a differnt but yet simplistic look.
However with the pictures ii have i find it very hard to do anything innovative or smart. Many of the pictrues are jus close up shots and s this had made it diffivult for me to design a good looking digipack. I aam definetly struglling with the making of this digipack and am hoping some ideas come to my head quick, After the session today this is what i fininshed with:
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