Mock Ups

As I do Photography, I already have a lot of experience within Photoshop CS6 and other photographic programmes. I feel as thought I have a lot of skills and are able to use these when making my own product but also I will be able to develop them throughout this process. By already being experienced in Photoshop CS6, I am familiar with a lot of the tools on their and I think that this could benefit me when making my own digipak. Before I do start on my actual product, I have decided to do some mock ups on some existing photos that I have. I am going to use some photos from my Photography work and experiment with editing.

Album Covers:





I also thought I would make a digipak with the template from the Wyke moodle by using existing images from an existing indie artist. I chose to use 'The 1975' as my inspiration as I feel as though they are quite black and white based when it comes to how they portray their album. Therefore, because my digipak is going to be focused on the black and white colour scheme, I thought I would use them to create a mock up. By creating this mock up, I have been able to experiment with different tools in Photoshop and also, I can see how my final product should look when it is put together on the template. I used some existing photos from Google but I altered the images and changed their colour to black and white. This is what I created on Photoshop:

Doing this mock up helped me in terms of how the layout should be when it comes to making my own. Obviously this doesn't look that professional but when it comes to making my own I will have enough research behind me that I know exactly what I need for it to look like an existing product. Below is evidence of the specific tools I used, how I used them and why:

Overall, I feel as though doing these mock ups have benefited me greatly in terms of being able to use Photoshop confidently, even though I knew most things anyway, I just feel that this has made me feel even more confident and I will be a lot quicker when it comes to editing my digipak. One thing that I did struggle with was putting the images behind the CD holder as this was quite difficult at first. Luckily my friend, who does Computing and has used Photoshop a lot in his work, helped me out and showed me what to do. By doing this, I have learnt myself how to do it so when I come to put my products onto the template, I will know how to do this without any difficulty.