Digipak front cover

I have started to create the design work for my digipak. First of all i decided to work on the front cover. Originally i was going to make the front cover the same as the poster but then i thought that would just be boring so then i decided to make it very similar but not the same. This is the image i have used for the front cover:

The first thing i did to this was crop it so that it was only his head and shoulders. I thought this would make my product stand out from others in a shop or on the shelf.

Like my poster i changed the offset, brightness and contrast levels to make it bolder and to get rid of the slight white wash look that the image had.

I then added the writing. I kept with the same font that i had used for the poster so that they would match. Originally I had just used the name of the band and i really like how it fitted on the bottom of the image and that the wooden pendant on his necklace fitted between the space in 'Imagine dragons'.

Then i realised that i should put the name of the album on the front so that people would know what they were buying. I put it directly above the band name because it was the most aesthetically pleasing and because 'Bleeding out' is shorter than 'Imagine dragons' it goes out nicely in a diagonal line.

This is my first draft for my front cover: