production of ancillary text

This image was a lot darker than the others used so i placed a white layer behind it and reduced the fill to 70% but then it was too light so I added a vignette at 98% and changed the midpoint to 97%.

pre-existing tour posters

Digipak template

This is the template that I will use to create my digipak. I will need to use images for each of the panels and ensure that they are all of the same style.

Possible Images for Digipak and Tour Poster

I couldn't decide on a style to use so I took a selection of photos so that I can have a play around in Photoshop to make a few digipaks and tour posters and see which style looks better. 

[http://www.fontspace.com/david-rakowski/dubiel]

I wrote an email to Vagrant records (City and Colour's record label) to ask for permission to use the song as they own the rights. This will make sure that i am not at risk of illegally using copyrighted music.

Post production

Album Cover research

For my genre, (alternative rock/ folk rock) album covers don't usually show the artist but usually show something relating to the song or album name. For my digipak cover, I will follow this convention and not use an image of my artist however I will take some pictures of my artist to use either on other sections of the digipak or on a promotional poster. Because my chosen song is about how the artist is a pessimist I will use an image relating to this such as a half empty glass. However a lot of artists of these genres use images of forests and other nature-esque images (as shown in the Kodaline EP at the top) so I might try something like that. Most of the albums are packaged in a card sleeve rather than a traditional plastic CD box. This is primarily to save money so that the artist can afford to sell the album at a much lower price and still make a profit but it is also to make the album sleeve easily recyclable.