As you can see above, this is our CD panel for
the disk part of our digipak. The continuous theme of the rose is featured on
this as we discovered that after a few drafts, the circular shape of the rose
fitted nicely with the disk template. As for the piercing red colour which
catches your eye straight away, this is placed where the CD is going to be, to
indicate where the rawest, vivid emotion is located. Originally we were going
to keep the background a plain white colour, however after experimenting and
playing with other pastel neutral backgrounds, we decided that the light blue
colour compliments the rose best. The ‘sky blue’ tone fits with the theme of
nature within our specific genre of indie rock. Again, we took a screenshot of
a video which was taken of the rose in the decaying process for our promo, we
just increased the contrast saturating levels in Photoshop to emphasise the
shadows between the layers of petals, which makes the rose look extremely
defined and visually attractive.
Firstly, we simply searched google images for
the correct colour which we were interested in using for the background. We then
dragged the photo from the website, into the application of Photoshop and created
it as a new layer of our Digipak. As we were unaware of how to make all of the
sides an equal size, we manually got a ruler and put it against the screen and
took down the measurements. Later we googled how to do it within Photoshop, for
next time.
Next step was inserting the picture of the
rose. We chose the perfect screenshot and then took the lasso tool to remove
any unwanted pieces of the image. Zooming in really helped to get into the tiny
corners of the petals to make sure we have the cleanest image with no black
background involved.
Below is the step by step process with screenshots.
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| The original image |
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| The magic wand tool was used to automatically select certain parts to delete |
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| The rose without the background |
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| The final piece! |
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