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Digipak: Inlay

 

Once again, new file, same dimensions. After that I filled the background layer with black and then, using the rectangle shape tool I created multiple squares and rectangles of various sizes, of hot pink, white, light pink and purple colours. The shapes were made and placed in no particular order because that was supposed to be the point.


After decades of making shapes, I added "outer glow" and in some rectangles "inner glow" effects to enhance the vibrancy and ensure it won't become dull after they were liquified. They were also supposed to stand out from the plain black background. After adding the effect to one of each coloured rectangles I copy and pasted the layer style to the others. After that, I merged all visible layers, including the black background layer, and then added a new black layer behind the merged layers.




Now for the main part. In order to get the wavy, abstract pattern, I added the liquify effect and randomly altered the shapes until I couldn't make out a regular shape. The colours seemed a bit different an discontinuous with the covers, so I adjusted the saturation and lightness of the pattern. 




Finally, for some finishing touches, I added some noise to the pattern and also duplicated thepattern layer, lowered its opacity slightly and shifted it a bit to the right in order to create the motion blur-ish effect the same way we did on the front cover.
This is the final result:




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