Making the Inside Pictures

These 4 pictures are the inside images for my digipak. The first 2 images of Lewis' head are the main inside images and the bottom 2 of the hands are seen behind the CD. I used a picture of Lewis' face/head from the front and back because I wanted to have continuity within my product. By doing this, my artist then featured in the video, magazine advert and album and seen as though he was not on the front cover of the album, I felt like I needed to incorporate him in some way so I chose to use this simple but effective image of him for the inside images. For the images behind the CD, I opted for the hands and when they are placed juxtaposed, they look as though they are reaching for each other which I think works really well. Also, having the hands matches with the rest of the album as the main image on the front cover is of hands holding and slipping away so I felt this worked really well with keeping it consistent. Below are the tools I used when making the inside images:

Below are the original images from this shoot:

 This first image shows I have used the black and white adjustment layer tool and I have altered the different coloured tones throughout, brightening and darkening certain tones and shades within the image. I mostly altered the blues and yellow as these were the main colours in the original. Altering the yellow brightened his face and I liked this as it put focus on his face, which is exactly what I was wanting.

 I then wasn't too convinced at the sizing of the image as I didn't think it looked exactly square so I went onto the template and got the measurements of the width and height so I could manually constrain it. I went into 'File' then 'New' and I created a new file which was at the correct requirements to fit the image onto the template. When I dragged the existing image onto the file, I was really close in scaling so only a bit had to be cropped off.

This is the part where it shows how I have cropped it to fit exactly right on the template. After cropping it to its exact size, I merged the layers and then dragged the photos onto the template. I used free transform to scale it to the template and it fit perfectly in the box it needed to be in which proves I used the correct measurements.


I then did this 3 more times with the other 3 images as I felt this way worked best for me and I felt more confident in how to do it. I know there was probably a quicker way to do it and I would have saved time, but in the end it looked how I wanted to anyway and doing it in my own way felt better so I didn't have to rush. I feel like the way I did it was beneficial as when I went to put all the photos on the template, they all turned out at the right sizes so this method is good to follow as it proves successful.