Creating my disk!

Now I had finished my research and had a clear idea on how I could design my own, I could begin the process! Firstly I started off by selecting a plain disk template from google images that I could work from. I then selected the paint bucket tool to create the black background. This can be shown below.

Next I wanted to add in the band's name. I wanted this text to match the housestyle of the rest of the digipak so I chose the Minion Pro text.

Above you can see where I have placed the text. I thought it would be a good idea to have the name at the top to make it stand out and show its importance. I also felt the white looked good against the black background. However I thought the text looked too simple and I wanted to emphasise the important of the band's name even more to make it stand out more so I thought it would be a good line to have it underlined. This would again relate to the front cover of my digipak as I also chose to underline the band's name there too. Below you can see that I have done this.

I also did not like the text in bold so I decided to change it to 'regular' as I felt this looked better. My disk research also showed me that it would be a good idea to include the album name on the disk. This would help show the target audience clearly that this disk belongs to my CRASH digipak.

Above you can see where I have placed the album name. I did not like this text in small case letters as I felt it looked less important particularly as this text is smaller than the band's name, which is something I still wanted to keep as I have done this on the front cover of my digipak. I decided to change this to capital letters to give it emphasis. I also thought it would be a good idea underline this to match the band's name above. After I had done this I still thought that my disk looked too plain. I therefore decided to add in the copyright terms and conditions that I had created for my back page. This can be seen below.

I thought this looked effective as it filled up a lot of the empty space at the bottom of the disk. Because I felt the background looked slightly dull just plain black I thought it might be a good idea to try out different effects on the disk background using the filter- artistic pencil tool. I decided to choose the 'plastic wrap' effect as I felt this made the disk more realistic and didn't make it look so dull. Below is the final disk design.