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Popscene CD Inlay

Front Cover:

For the front I used a photo of the microphone with a shallow depth of field so that the background is out of focus. Although in the image you can see still that there is a band formation in the background. In Photoshop I edited the image along side the other photos for the CD. If you have seen my previous blog post on the filming of the music video you might recognize the shot. I ran the file through Photoshop to adjust the composition so that it was more balanced using the rule of thirds. Also so that it was the correct size for a CD cover 4.724 inches, or 4.974 with the bleed area. The bleed area is so that no unprinted edges occur. The colours and brightness were changed to be constant with the inlay.

Back Cover:

What I've noticed when doing this task is that the print colours can look quite different from the ones on a monitor screen. The blue hue did come out more than I expected it to, as you can see there is quite a stark difference between the screenshot within Photoshop and the actual back cover. I added text typical of that you would find on a CD: track listing, musicians, record label(s) and bar code. I also added two tabs at either side of the cover. 

Booklet:

Originally it was going to be a six page booklet. However I learnt after my first test print that if you wanted the pages being stuck together leaving no blanks then you had to use multiples of four. Therefore it ended up being an eight page booklet, instead of six. 

Front cover of the booklet^                                                                                       Inside the booklet^



Inside the booklet^                                                                                         Back cover of the booklet^

When designing the inlay I was concerned that the image resolution might not be high enough for a good print being that an image typically needs 300 pixels per inch, compared to the 72 needed for onscreen viewing. However since the photos were all taken on a DSLR with a fair amount of megapixels this wasn't a problem, while perhaps on a phone it might of been an issue.


CD:

I was inspired by Soundgarden's Superunknown CD design which gets it's design from a vinyl record. I thought it would be interesting to try and replicate. I decided to layout the CD design similar to a typical 7" single, like the one to the right. I scanned in the B side of a single (What She Said by The Smiths ). Next I used Photoshop to change the colour and edit out the original text. Then I superimposed the Blur's band logo using a .png file, which meant that it had no background to be edited out. Using Epson Print CD I was able to add text to the design. Although I didn't have the right CD's to print the design, so instead I used Lightscribe, a software that engraves disks with a laser. It meant that there wasn't any colour but I got to keep the design somewhat.





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