Constructing the Digipak

To start off, me and Shelby went and gathered all the images we already taken while filming. We then decided what extra shots we needed and went and took them. Once we had all the final images went gathered all the usable ones and but them in a folder to be used and sent them to Sarah who would be editing the digipak and advert. She went through a picked some good images that she could manipulate well and in different ways. We then told her about our Adele idea where there are multiple images of Shelby an she is tinted and partially transparent.

We sat around the computer with Sarah as she arranged some images into the digipak template so that we could know which images should go in what slot.



Sarah started to edit the images by taking each one individually and cropping them to make them a suitable size and take the background out of some. The tool used to do this is the quick select tool and the magnetic lasso when we needed better precision. Once we had what we wanted perfectly selected, the rest of the image was removed by using the eraser (this would not erase what we selected one the whats not selected)



After this we started to manipulate the images in different ways to see what looks good: here is one example



From playing around we really liked the Adele idea and therefore started to work on that. As you can see below this was our attempt with different colours. Some were brighter but we preferred the more transparent ones but then couldn't decide between which colours. We all sat together and decided what one was best due to which colour and which opacity. We decided to use the top right which is the lower opacity and the red coloured.




To create these effects, we used had to recolour the images to make them appear different colours and then lowered their transparency. The told that do this is the Hue and saturation and Transparency tool and Opacity tool.Due to the transparency being lowered some colours merged so we had to pick colours that went well together and ones that didn't merge.

We really liked this effect so decided to use both these images separately but have one where they are merged together. We had to take both and put them into one separate file and chafe there opacity slightly so they looked better



We then added some text, i went through the lyrics and showed Sarah some good lines to use to put with each picture and Shelby suggested we use the same font as the magazine advert. Text is entered by using the text tool.



We also put in more shapes like thought bubbles and other text. These are added by used the shape tool and holding it down so more shapes and options open up.



Lastly we flipped the top images so they were upside down as this is the requirement and we put in a image of a cd to show which tile the cd would be. These are flipped by transforming them and reflecting them the desired way.



Here is the completed digipak