Firstly I needed to download a template for the Digipak, so I downloaded one from discmaker.com and opened it up on Photoshop. After opening up the template into photoshop I unlocked the layer and began by creating 3 squares that fit the front cover, the inside cover and back cover. i then added my digital illustrations that i had coloured on photoshop into photoshop and unlocked the layer so I could drag it onto the template.
After creating the main art for my album, I realised I needed to create a band name. For this I used a random band name generator online that came up with 'undercover brotherhood' which I then used for my band name. I then added this as text to the front of my album using a simple font and creating the title using various sizes, stroke and spacing.
After completing my main design for my front cover, I began working on the back cover and track list. Here I used a random name generator to make up names of songs and used a text tool to position the names in the centre using simple and smaller font - following the common conventions of other indie style digipaks.
Once I added a track list I also needed a bar code which I found online and downloaded in a JPEG format. After it was positioned in the bottom right corner where the conventional bar code tends to go.
I then removed the outer sides of the image where the disk tray is, to show what the disk would look like.
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