Diary Entry: 14th November

As last lesson we created the back image, today we chose to create the front of the CD cover. We had already found the actual text of the band so inserting this was very simple, but before importing we had to make the image transparent so there would be no white background or outline around the text, this was done on Fireworks. The image chosen for this cover was Grace dabbing the cigarette hinting at the album name- light me up. We wanted a dark image where she would be the focus, although there is empty space on the right she is the main focus of the cover. The album title was created on Photoshop as it was just text. This colour and font was used as it stood out and the orange colour implied light/ fire which also links to the cigarettes. We felt linking the image and text would make the image have a relevance and effectiveness.

When both the front and back covers were completed we imported it to the tri-fold CD template. Although importing it did not alter the image to fit to scale so we had to do it manually by making it fit a 12cm by 12cm square. This task proved difficulty as the images were overlapping and the quality of the image changed as it was transformed in size. Instead a lot of the unnecessary parts had to be cropped to ensure the image did not  lose its high quality and good size. This process was very time consuming however as we got used to it, the process got a lot quicker.

Author: Kiran Paul