Back cover for Digi-Pak

Today i started doing more work on my digi-pak design by trying to create the back cover. I went through the old crowd footage and freeze-framed the part that i thought would look good as part of a digi-pak for a pop-punk band. On the left is the original image. With this i wanted to edit it in a way that makes the image more about the fact that it's a crowd and have less emphasis on the peoples faces.

To do this i will be using the programme Adobe Photoshop CS3 so that i can edit it properly by adding layers and editing each layer to create a more professional image.

I began looking through some of the effects, with a black and white, faded outline of the crowd in mind and found an effect called 'Photocopy' which made the image black and white and put emphasis on the shadow around each person in the crowd. I was able to change the darkness and opacity of the image to how i wanted and produced this image below.

One of the main things i like about this is how it blurs out some of the crowd members who are further back but still shows that it is clearly a crowd and it gives the impression that they is a lot of people there. I chose to do a crowd shot because the genre pop-punk often revolves around gigs and their fans and by having this on the back it would show a passer by that they must be quite good and play good music to produce a crowd who are clearly enjoying themselves. This type of black and white contrast with the shadow and brightness will be a recurring theme through my digi-pak design, because it will represent the music having some quite melodic guitar riffs against the punky drums.

The next thing i plan to do is create a list of songs that will be on the album, and apply them to this image effectively. I also plan to get a camera and take a picture of some studio equipment soon so that i can edit that for the inside of the digi-pak and continue to thinkmof ideas for the front cover logo/image.