Creating digipak poster

To create my digipak poster I chose one of my strongest photos, as this will make my poster the highest quality it can be. To correlate with the theme of my digipak, I put the photo in black and white, as all my other photos are. I then added a photo of smoke on top of the photo and lowered the opacity so that i could see both the smoke and the original photo. I thought that the faces of my my band were covered too much, so i gently rubbed out so of the smoke layer so that their faces are more visible. At this point I still thought that it needed some more work, so I decided to add a background to the photo. I wanted this background to not cover any of the bodies of my band so I used the eraser tool to rub out this layer that was covering the body. This created the look I desired, as the two different layers work well together.

The next stage of creating the poster was to add the features found on digipak posters. This included the album name, artist name, social media logos, and the record label. I downloaded all these images and added them to the bottom of the poster. This makes the poster look very professional and similar to ones found used by actual artists. The text is one of the main aspects of the poster as this tells the reader who the artist is and what the album is called. Because the poster is to promote the album it needs to be noticed by the reader. I need to make sure the text stands out and isn't overpowered by the other visuals on the poster. I have used the font I had chosen originally and am pleased with how it looks as it's very bold and noticeable. I have also experimented with different colours and have considered putting the album name in white, as I am conscious that it might get drowned out if it is the same colour as the other text. So far I am pleased with how it looks, and am going to ask other people what their opinions on it are.