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Digipak: Back Cover

For the back cover, we had the clearest idea of what to do (https://youtu.be/ZrX1XKtShSI?t=41). We had already taken the pictures for the digipak on production day 2.


Fun fact: the motion blur was purely an accident and during filming and then we liked that effect and took better photos with the same camera settings (basically a very low shutter speed). Nevertheless, the image suits the theme very well in every way, including the disorientation and also including clear aspects from the music video.


Same as with the front cover, I opened a new file with the dimensions 5.45" x 4.95" and then opened the selected image. I had to adjust it a bit because it was obviously way too much larger than the canvas, and then adjusted the saturation and brightness a little, since most of the work such as the contrast and hue was already cut out for us. It still looked a bit too bright on the eyes especially compared to the front cover so I added a black colour fill layer and lowered its opacity.


Next, I added a barcode that I'd saved from google, which is basically a necessity for every album cover. After that I added other technical necessary information that is conventionally placed on the back cover - the label logo(s) and copyright text. I added the logo of NC Records and beneath it copy and pasted the "P" and "C" in circles which are symbols for sound recordings and copyright. The rest of the text I took from the back of a k-pop album I own plus The 1975's digipak because why not.



The only thing left now was the main part - the tracklist. Even though an initial idea was to arrange them is a semi-random placement, we decided to keep it simple because it looked well with the background. Deciding the song names was fairly easy because we have Hira our name generator, if that wasn't by now. We decided to have a mix of English and Urdu songs because it seemed more realistic for a Pakistani indie artist, however it is natural we kept more English names because that was the vibe of the album, leaning towards a more westernised image.



 For the sake of consistency, we went with Libby as the font for the tracklist, and then just duplicated the tracks, left aligned them and placed them at the centre of the cover. We definitely ended up with more than 7-9 tracks but oh well.




After this though, I made a few changes in the song names. This is what the digipak back cover looks like:


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