Creating the Digipak

Below is the progression of my Digipak:

I started of with this image of a brick wall found of Google as a basis for the cover of my digipak.

I added a gradient to the picture and altered its hue and saturation making it darker. I then proceeded to add a bar code and other information inspired by research i previously carried out on digipaks and album covers.

I took a photo of my self and through photo shop I added the minimum... filter to create a sketch effect and altered the image so the sketched lines were darker and there was a hint of color.

I then added this image to the picture of the brick wall and at this point decided to go with a 'graffiti' look to the album cover. To do this I attempted to create a newly painted look to the image on the wall through paint splatters and the font of the writing. To create the writing I used the 'painterz' font, and added a stroke/outline and then removed the inside fill of the writing.

I wanted the digipak to relate to the song in some way so I decided to create the in side with lights taken from the title of the song. To do this I used the picture of lights below.

I first created a blank template to complete my work

I then added the previously shown picture of lights, set it's format to screen allowing for a glowing, bright effect as shown below, and then duplicated and extended the image.

I then added a gradient to the image to complete it and added pink lights at the bottom.

I then proceeded to add the pictures to their corresponding panels.

I then decided to create the CD following the inside theme of lights. I used part of the image I created for the inside panels, placed it half on the cd, duplicated the image and rotated it matching the opposite side. I then added the name of the song keeping with the theme of writing I used throughout.