Digipak - Front Cover (Front Cover Development)

The front cover of my digipak consists of the artist on the right hand side of the cover, the name of the album and her name is beside her on the left hand side. Sophie is posing and there is direct contact with the audience with the use of eye contact. The background fades from red into orange and then into yellow, from the bottom left had corner to the top right. I added a drop shadow behind Sophie so she stands out more against the background.

To improve this basic design i added a drop shadow to her name and her album name to make the text stand out and look alot more clear then it did before. The shadow on the text is at the same angle as the shadow on Sophie, i done this because i thought it looked better and slightly more real, it's as if there is one light source casting a shadow on both Sophie and the text.

I then thought that the background needed more, it needed something to make it less boring. I played around with a new layer behind Sophie and the text. I added rings behind her head by using the radial gradient to conotate an old 50's style microphone, this is to match her style and voice.

I think adding the rings makes Sophie stand out a considerable amount more than she did before, i think this adds dimension to the front cover. The rings also conoate the style of microphone they sung in the 50's.
After adding the rings, i didn't think it was jelling together as well as i wanted it to, so what i did was change the colour of her dress from this peachy orangey colour to orange by using the colour balance. I selected the parts of her dress that i wanted to change the colour to and i copied and pasted it onto a new layer, to change the colour i played around with the colour balance.