After completing the front cover I started to look at the back cover. I gained inspiration from the back cover of an Alt-J CD called 'This Is All Yours' and definitely stood out to me as something I'd like to see on my own digipak.
To recreate this style I first chose a font which was evenly spaced which would allow me to keep the same column size to make it look square. If I did not do this the writing would be unevenly distributed along each lines and wouldn't create the effect I wanted. Also instead of having a black font colour, I make the text multicoloured with the same colours from the front cover to keep the same style.
To do this I used Photoshop and the clipping mask tool. As you can tell from the screenshots above, you start with the writing in black and the photo you want to put behind the text. The photo should cover the text but can be adjusted later in the process. Then you create a clipping mask with the photo you want behind the text and it should come out similar to what I've done above. This is a very simple process overall as I followed through the Adobe tutorials online which made it all very simple. I'm not the most skilled using photoshop by with the use of tutorials makes everything possible and doesn't put a limit on for what you can do.
The photo above is the back cover of the actual digipak that Sheppard used for their album called 'Bombs Away' which featured the song 'Geronimo. I used this as it allowed to me to replicate the price tag music labels and copyright text beside it to put on the back of my own digipak. This makes it look professional as it has elements that an actual digipak would have. If I did not include this, I would feel like I have just added text to the back cover, but I tried to make it look official with the use of the record labels and proce tag.
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