DVD cover and disc diary

DVD Cover

For the background I used a gradient fill to make something that represents sky. To create this I used the gradient tool and used the colour bar to choose the colour that I wanted.

I used screen shots from my productions and dragged them onto my Photoshop project from my desktop. In the 'Edit' menu of Photoshop I used the 'transform - scale' tool to scale the pictures down to the size pictured above. After I had done this I arranged them in the order that they were produced and lined them up accurately. To create the box on the outer edge of each of the pictures I used the rounded rectangle tool to draw a box without a fill but with a stroke of 3 that fitted on the edge of the pictures. I brought this outline to the front of the pictures by going to the 'Layers' menu in Photoshop and then going to 'Arrange - Bring To Front'. In order to line the outlines up accurately I used the 'Zoom' tool at 800% and moved them using the arrow keys until they were all line up in the same way.

To add my production logo I used the picture from my desktop and dragged it onto my Photoshop project and used the 'transform - scale' tool from the 'Edit' menu to scale it down to the size that I wanted.

To add the pictures I dragged the photos from my desktop onto my Photoshop project and scaled them all down to the same size. After arranging them in the above positions I created the outlines in the same way as I did for the pictures that are on the left side of the DVD cover. I used the 'rounded rectangle tool' with no fill and a stroke of 10. I used the colour bar to choose different colours for two of the picture's outlines. I used the 'Zoom' tool up to 800% to line up the outlines accurately.

 

To create the clouds I used the 'Ellipse' tool and drew circles with a white fill over the top of each other until I was happy with the effect. With each of the ellipse layers I rasterized them by pressing 'control' and right clicking on the layer in the layers menu on the right side of Photoshop and then by clicking 'Rasterize'. To merge all of the layers together I used the 'Shift' key and right clicked on all of they ellipse layers and made up one cloud and clicked 'Merge layers' from the menu. I made copies of the merged layers by using the 'Alt' key and right clicking. I edited the copies by going to the 'Edit' menu and clicking 'Transform - Rotate' and 'Transform - Scale' to change the size. 

I added text by using the 'Text' tool. After choosing the font from the font menu, choosing the size that I wanted and typing what I wanted I used the 'Transform - Rotate' tool from the 'Edit' menu to rotate "The work of Louise Grimshaw", "The Game" and "Ambition". Then I arranged the words around the pictures.

I used the same font for the blurb but I made it smaller by using the tool in the font menu. After writing it all, I used the arrow keys to arrange the text next to the pictures that correspond with it.

DVD Disc

I used the same gradient fill that I used for the DVD cover; I used the 'Gradient' tool and then used the colour bar to choose the same colour of blue to represent sky.

I used the same method to create the clouds as I did for the DVD cover. I used the 'Ellipse' tool with a white fill and drew circle over each other until I was happy with the effect. I rasterized each ellipse layer by using the 'Control' key and right clicking and then by clicking 'Rasterize' in the menu. I merged the ellipse layers together by using the 'Shift' key and right clicking on each of them and then by using the 'Control' key and right clicking and then clicking on 'Merge layers' in the menu. For one of the clouds I used the 'Alt' key and right clicked on in to create a copy of it. I used the 'Transform - scale' and the 'Transform - rotate' tool in the 'Edit' menu to make the layer bigger and to rotate it. 

I used the same font that I used for the DVD cover, for the title I used a larger font. I used the type tool to type all of the texts. For "The Game" and "Ambition" I used the 'Transform - Rotate' in the 'Edit' menu to rotate the text. I then arranged them in the design above. For the outline around "The work of Louise Grimshaw" I used the 'Rounded Rectangle Tool' and drew a box around the text without a fill and with a stroke of 1.5. Once I had drawn the box around the font, it was too big to fit within the outline so I merged the layers of text and the outline by using the 'Shift' key and right clicking on all the layers, then I used the 'Control' key and right clicked and clicked 'Rasterize' in the menu, the I did the same thing but I clicked 'Merge layers' in the menu. I then used the 'Transform - Scale' tool from the 'Edit' menu to scale it down so that it would fit inside the outline.