After some group discussion and opinions from classmates the group and I decided that we should use a gradient of turquoise and orange on our digipak front panel. The reason behind this change is that the original cover is rather bland, with little colour which reduces the boldness which we feel a cover should have; so that it attracts the audience to buy it when it's on a shop shelf etc. Although we already have a design with a gradient used, that design was far too strong, as classmates and ourselves thought it was 'a bit too much' as the strong colours took away from the actual photo.
Here is the improved cover, the gradient used has a
lower opacity and the lighting option of the gradient was changed from 'colour burn' to
'linear burn', this toned the whole gradient down so it wasn't as bold as before. We all agreed that this cover was much more effective for our digipak, as we feel it has a balance of colour so that the photo is still recognizable as Glenn looking out to the life of London. I also added an
underline to the song title AKA...What A Life, so that it stands out from the dark background is on, and because it gives the text a more handwritten style, which is evoked on Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds album and single digipaks.
No comments:
Post a Comment