For the 3 inside panels, we thought it was important to include images of the actual band. As Radiohead never usually centre themselves on the album artwork, we conformed to this convention by keeping both the front and back covers simply to artwork, without the band. As our music video also doesn't contain the band themselves however, we felt it would be a good opportunity to include the band over a 3-panel image, with the centre panel being where the CD would be placed.
For this, we did a photoshoot outside with a backdrop of woodland again to conform to the rest of both our main and ancillary products. We narrowed down the choices to 2 photos, and spent time making the image fit to a 36cm by 12cm size, like below.
The image above is an example of an image we didn't choose to use, after testing out different effects. Instead, we chose the image below which is shown in its original form. The band members are conveniently spread out across the image for it to suit our 3-panel cover, so that one member will be on each panel.
Firstly, we cut the image again so it was a 36cm by 12cm format, and then the main adjustment after this was the effects we created using Adobe Photoshop CS4. We cut up the image into numerous strips, and then tilted them distort the image, but not enough to lose the initial photo. We also split the photo into 2 layers, with one layer using a greyscale, and the other in a sepia colour/warming filter of orange. Again, this was to keep the continued theme of woodland colours throughout the digipak, although this time the image was not completely similar to the front/back cover for instance.
Once we were happy with the look of the image, we then placed the CD shape in the accurate place over the centre panel, which was a translucent white circle, so that none of the image was actually hidden or affected. The final outcome is below:
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