Digipack Dimensions and Layouts

There are different templates that can be used when creating a digipack booklet/inlays and each one has there advantages and disadvantages

This is a new way layout of CD where the CD case it integrated with the covers and inlays. This creates a continuous line of photos with the 3 inlays but the still keeps the back and front cover separate  allowing for some subtle differences in fonts and colors without it looking miss matched. This caters for 4 inlays (one behind the disc), a front and a back cover.

 This inlay booklet does allow for a continuous line of images as the whole booklet folds out into one. This is good if you want to display lots of images of your artist or if you want to display the lyrics for all of your tracks. I think that this type of template means you need a running theme throughout all of your images. This caters for 6 inlays, a front and a back cover.

 This is the standard booklet that you would find separate from the CD and the front and the back cover. This would be typical if the album was being sold as a hard CD and not a digital download. It is a very common template used by popular musicians. This allows for 8 inlays.

This is a more basic form of digipack booklet used for albums with minimal images. It only allows for 2 inlays, one behind the disc and a front and a back cover. This kind of template could be used by artists who pride themselves on being minimal and simple and could be good for an Indie artist.

Creating a Contact Sheet- photoshop tutorial

For one of our inlays of our digipack we wanted to have a contact sheet of behind the scenes shots of the overall production of the music, video and photoshoot for the digipack. This would allow the audience to feel more connected to the audience and would also show that he is involved in all aspects of the album making process and is a credible artist.

We did not know the best way of creating a contact sheet so I found a tutorial on youtube explaining photoshop's default setting for creating one.




 

Digipack- practice wallpaper

Having come up with a concept for our front, back and two of the inlays of our digipack, we decided it would be good to test out the wallpaper idea. We bought some brick wallpaper and wrote the lyrics on it. More wallpaper was then stuck over the top ready to be torn off.

Photoshop Tutorial - Filters

For one of the inlays of our digipack, we are creating a production montage. For this particular inlay we want to add a sepia type filter to all of our photos. Having not had much experience with Photoshop, I decided to look for a tutorial to find out how to add filter layers.