Finished DVD Cover

This is the completed DVD cover...

I decided to move the blurb slightly to the right hand side of the page, and changed the image of Cristina to the left hand side. I chose to do this because I felt the text looked to crowded directly above the 'Disk 1' text, so I swamped it to the other side as the 'Disk 2' text was much further down the page. The Cristina image therefore, breaks up the text so it doesn't look as squashed. 

I have also changed the placements slightly of both the 'Disk' texts and the images between them. I wanted to make the 2 images showing some footage form the DVD, so that they were directly in the middle of the page as they looked much better this way and stood out more on the cover. As a result of this, I moved the two 'Disk' columns so that they were more in centre of either side. 

I was tempted to put more images above and below the 'Disk 2' text, I did try this but I decided that it made the back cover look too crowded with images and just didn't work.

Furthermore, I have now got rid of the white background that was on the barcode and it now looks much better on the cover and matches the other symbols I have added too. I deleted the white background by going to the menu at the side where it shows the layers and selecting 'Multiply' from the list. 

I added the rest of the symbols to the back cover too, such as the DVD logo and the Century Media Record label logo too. I used the images that I found using Google Images earlier and imported the files into Photoshop and put them on different layers. Like the barcode, they had white backgrounds, which I got rid of by using the same technique, selecting the "Multiply' option in the menu to the right hand side. 

Additionally, for the 'Exempt from Classification' Logo, I had to use the 'magic wand tool' to select the logo and used the 'fill' tool so that I could change it from it's original colour, that was green, to black so that it matched the colour scheme used. I used the 'Multiply' technique again here to get rid of the background. I also created a new layer to add text to the logo. Next to the 'E' symbol,  I added 'Exempt from the bbfc classification' just to make it clearer to the audience what it meant. I made the text quite small so that it fitted with the logo, and used the font 'Perpetua' again, which I had used for all of the text on my DVD cover. Once I had added the text, I selected both of the layers and merged them together. 

For the copyright information at the bottom, I added in the 'C' logo, which I had to change the size of as it was way too big to start off with. I did this by going to the menu at the top and going to 'Transform' and then 'Scale', whilst holding down the shift key, I adjusted it to a more suitable size. I then added the text using the 'Perpetua' style font, and added some copyright text which I had got off another music DVD. 

I decided to add the DVD logo to the front cover as well as I noticed that some music DVD's have the symbol either on the front cover, or the spine too. I thought I would put it on the front to make it clear that it was a music DVD to the audience. I chose to place it in the bottom right hand corner as there was some empty space at the bottom and I felt that it was the ideal place to put it, instead of at the top where there was already some text. 

On the spine of the DVD, I chose to add the Century Media Record label logo again as I had noticed that on some music DVD's, they had placed the record label logo there.  I chose to put it at the bottom of the spine as I already had the grenade symbol at the top and felt that it would look more balanced if I added something to the bottom. 

Additionally, after much deliberation, I eventually chose to keep to the old Lacuna Coil band logo I had designed originally for the front cover. I felt that the new updated one, which had the small grenade symbol over the letter 'o' in 'Coil', didn't work so well on the spine as it was smaller and I didn't think it looked as good as the original. This worked out fine anyway, as I had stuck to the original logo on the CD wrap as I didn't think it would work having the new logo with the grenade in over the background of the CD, which had an enlarged grenade on it already, it would've looked too much. 

Also, throughout the later stages of my editing in Photoshop, I decided to group layers together as it became difficult finding the layers I wanted as I had so many. 

I put the layers in three different groups: 'Front Cover', 'Spine' and 'Back Cover'. This made it much easier to find the layers I wanted. I also had some groups within the already grouped layers, such as 'Images' and 'Symbols' within the 'Back Cover' group, to make it even easier to find my layers.