I have decided to make changes to my CD digipak. I realised that the template I used meant that both parts at the top were meant to be upside down. This meant I had to rotate the image around. I did this so that if my digipak was produced it would look the same to similar ones on the market today.

Here is my finished digipak after rotation of my CD:

Here is my CD Digipak:

I realised that I hadnt added my CD, Inside page or my spine to my Digipak so had to do this first. I copied them onto my template so that I had a complete CD Digipak. The photos I have used in my digipak have also been used by my group members alex and darren. We decided after discussing what we wanted to do with each photos that as a group we would all use them wherever we wanted too, because we wanted to keep continuity amongst our groups but also, personally I wanted to keep continuity with my other ancillery task my webiste so that both together looked good, but as a group we all looked similar so that the theme of continuity was carried out successfully.

The only thing I needed to finsih on my digipak was the actual CD cover itself. I looked at my template and noticed that the shape was quite difficult. I decided to create my own template to put over the top as it allowed me to save time but also look similar to the template. I started by creating a new photoshop using the measurements again. I then started creating my template by using the shapes toolbar. Here I added a circle for the actual cd, a circle inside this for the ring in the middle of the circle and also added semi circles at each side for the extra parts in CD's. I started by having the inside circle and the background the same colour as all my backgrounds. This is because the inside circle in all CD's are 'cut out' and means that if the CD was produced, you would see the background colour. I then picked a photo I wanted on the CD.

Here is the original photo:

I only wanted the main charcter in the photo (on the right) so I had to carefully crop the image so that I only got him in the shot. I wanted to create an effect where the same image would be used twice on my CD, but coming out of the middle of the CD back to back. The effect would look like the character would be back to back with himself. To create the effect I had to use the eye dropper tool again to get the colour of the background of the image above. This colour I would fill for the CD itself as then the whole CD would be the same colour. This means that when I import the image onto the CD, the whole colour would be the same.

The next thing was getting the image onto the circle with no extra parts coming off. As I created my own template I had to select the image by the eliptique marquee tool. This is where you select the image in a circular way and can edit it from this shape. I tried this many times as I couldnt get the curve correctly with the circle I had created. This was very time consuming as the image would either be too small and not fit the curve or would be over the curve. Finally after many attempts I got one correct and put this onto my CD. I then used exactly the same image as the curve would be the same but flipped the image horizontally. I positioned this iamge the same as the other side and it created the effect I wanted. I then added text to the CD with the artists name and album name again in the red colour font whilst filling the extra parts of the CD in the other two colours, blue and yellow.

Here is my overall CD:

From my template, I realised I needed to do a spine for the digipak. I got the measurements of 125.5 * 6 mm and created a new photoshop page. I had taken a photo especially for my spine which was of a guitar as I couldnt use an image off the internet as this wouldnt be my own work.. I wanted to put a guitar in the middle of the spine with both the album name and the artists name on top or beneath the guitar. Here is my image of my guitar:

I firstly had to crop the image size down and then to just get the guitar had to use the magnetic lasso tool on photoshop to cut only the part I wanted. This took some time as I wanted to make it look perfect. After this I added it onto my background. My background was the same colour as my front and back pages to keep continuity and I did this by using the eye droper tool from the front cover and using the fill tool.  I then added my original plan of having the name of the artist and album on the spine, whilst using the red font again to stick to the theme I ahve used.

Here is my Spine:

Here shows the guitar cropped and cut out from the image.

After completing both my front page and my back page and adding them to my template, I started on my inside page. Looking through my pictures I had taken, I noticed that my character was facing in different directions. I came up with the idea of each photo looking at one another. I originally only had 2 photos that did this however in this lesson I went out too take 2 more photos in the remaining directions I needed. Here are the 2 photos I took this lesson:

With the other 2 photots I had already taken, I had my charcter looking at all directions. I cropped the photos and added them into each corner of my page. The page still looked a bit boring so I added lyrics from the video I created Grade 8 in the same colour scheme I had already used. I decided to use red because it stood out more over the darkish background. Here is my back page:

As you can see the images I have used all look at a direction, in which the way they look will always continue to go round. This is the effect I was looking for and I am very happy with my work. The only thing I needed to do was flip the image. This is because the 2 upper parts on my template need to be upside down because if the album was produced, then they would be upside down.  By flipping them to upside down, if you folded the template they would be the correct way round.

After completing the front page, I started doing my back page. I firsty started off by researching Ed Sheerans album song list. I went onto google and searched for the song list and then added them to my back page. I changed my backpage background to the same colour that I used on my front page so that again it was kept the same. After adding the song names I decided to stick with my colour scheme of Red, yellow and Blue by putting each different song into a different colour. I split the songs into half as I wanted to positon them differently than the normal position of the middle of the page. I then added some of the photos, I had taken to the back page. I decided I didnt want all of the photo so firstly cropped them and edited them to what I wanted. I then copied them onto the back page I was working on. From looking at my CD's at home the other day, I realised that all CD's have a barcode too. I asked my teacher if I was allowed to use one off of the internet as it wouldnt have been oour own and that was the ONLY thing I was allowed to use. I opened it up and coloured the background to match the background colour of the back page and inserted this onto it. Here is my back page completed:

I then had to copy this onto my template. I hadnt copied my front page either so I did both at the same time. Here is how it looks currently:

I had started my digipak, however didnt really have an idea on what to include on the front cover. I went how and looked at CD covers I had at home, to see what kind of things they include. I noticed that on most new CD's there was a sticker that had some information on the songs included. I decided that although I couldnt have a real sticker that I would create the effect on photoshop. I decided to create a box with some of the information I wanted to help 'sell' the product. This also made the cover look better and more professional. The only other thing I needed to make was the title of the album. I decided to add the artists name Ed Sheeran to the cover and put this down the right hand side. I needed a title and came up with 'Coming Home'. The reason I did this is for 2 reasons. I noticed on my website that I had tour date information. With the name of the album as coming home, I could play on the words and call the tour the homecoming tour. This sounded good but another reason why is because I found that the last letter of home 'E' is the same as the beginning of Ed. I decided to link the title with the artists name so that it gave a good effect. I had stuck to a black and white coloured theme however I believed that it looked to plain and boring. Most CD's are colourful to help them stand out, so I decided to go for a Red, Yellow and Blue colour theme. Here is my Front Cover completed:

As you can see, the CD would stand out quite a lot amongst others. By using these colours, it means that I will have to follow this throughout both my digipak and my website as I want to keep good continuity.