Digipak: Outside Cover - Fourth Draft

To further complete our digipak, we needed to add the tracklisting and the barcode to the central panel of the outside cover.
In order to make a convincing barcode, I followed a tutorial I found online, which can be viewed here. After placing that into our template, I created a picture showing several potential fonts that we may use for our digipak. The picture is shown below.

I then asked a series of people which font they preferred, which was the seventh option.
I then used this font to insert the tracklisting for the digipak. I used the tracklisting from Moss' Passerby EP, and added two songs which she has released as separate singles. I also added a subtitle of 'bonus features', which included the music video and a live performance from the BT Tower. The performance can be found below.

After looking at Adele's 21 album cover in this blogpost, we knew that we must include a small section regarding copyright in order for our digipak to be of a professional quality. Therefore, we mirrored the tet on Adele's album art and included her website URL and created the fictional 'AM Recordings Ltd.' This text was made using a smaller font and one which did not use the stroke feature in Photoshop, meaning that it is not instantly obvious, yet still visible to the audience. The other text on this panel utilises the stroke feature of photoshop, which adds a border to the text, making it stand out more than before.

To use the stroke feature, we needed to create a text layer and then select the fx button at the bottom of the layers window. We then had to select the bottom option of stroke, which opened a new window.

In the window shown below, we could alter the size of the stroke by pixels, as well as the colour. For this example, the size was 3 pixels and the colour was black.

Below is an example of the same piece of text both with and without the effects of the stroke tool. It is obvious that the stroke tool allows the text to stand out from the background, and draws the audience's attention away from other areas of the image and to the text. The writing without the stroke tool appears lost in the image as a whole, and isn't as striking at the writing with the stroke tool.

Below is the fourth draft of our digipak's outside cover. The only thing left to complete are the two spines.