CD Cover 1st Draft

This is my first attempt at a CD cover for my digipack. As it is a draft, this time I imported a found image as I have yet to take photographs to use in my final cover. I searched for an image with a flat-peak hat being worn, in order to illustrate the genre. After this, I loaded the picture into Photoshop and using the lasso tool cut around the image. I then played around with effects to apply to the image, with the idea of using a silhouette type effect. I eventually settled on a static style effect, and then added text from http://www.dafont.com/ and created a black border around the edges. Finally I imported the parental advisory logo in order to make the cover look legit.

CD Cover Ideas


The reason I like and have taken inspiration from these covers is mainly due to simplicity. This is something I find most effective after having researched into digipaks - as covers with too much going on distract from who the artist is. With the xx/biggie smalls cover I like the use of iconography. After releasing their album, the xx have been commonly associated with the cross symbol, with it being used on adverts, videos, posters etc. so it is easily recognizable that they are the artists. The inclusion of Biggie Smalls' face behind the cross is another use of iconography due to him being such a famous and well known character. Linking the two artists together however could possibly cause confusion in the audience - as they are from very different genres. So the text of '...?' and 'wait what?' act as the voice of the audience whilst the text at bottom confirms what they have seen in a way. This is something that can make a cover very appealing to the audience - a level of interaction.