Digital Surface Design

For more experiments for our CD packaging and inlays, we were asked to experiment with different ways to make a design. Here are my three out comes. 

Here is my first surface design.

This was a rainbow effect using photoshop. For beginning part of this design I made two layers then added a gradient colour to each have one lighter than the other to get the correct effect that i thought would be great to use. After adapting the rainbow gradient with black lines, added white little squares to it to make the design to become more outstanding. I may use this technique for some part of my CD packaging but I may change the colours to adapt to the style of the band.

The second design was probably the easiest to make. As it was just copying the same design over and over again to create a distinguishing repeated pattern. I used the initails of my band and used a font that would look quite effective. I made the background a bright red so the white text would stand out. After that I made the background gradient of white going into pink then finally into red. The reason why i did this was because i wanted to get the effect that the text stamp was appearing out of nowhere. I may use this deign to the inlay to my Cd booklet.



This is the final digital surface design, which I chose to use my particular band in it. I uploaded the photo of the band to photoshop, then added 3 different pictures of textures that i thought that you work quite well. With all of the textures i added in i changed the effect of the placing some behind the photo of the band and some in-front making the lighter or darker than the band image. I really liked this effect. The reason why I liked this effect the most was because even though it did include a photo of my favourite band, it also included a lot of change use a grunge effect with different lighting and many effects that contrast well with eachother all in one photo.