Back Cover - Designing

For the back of the album cover I started work on the mouth that will be applied to a newspaper background. We are doing different sections of the CD case and cover together and I was assigned to the back cover and logo.

The back will be an open yelling mouth of a newspaper stock photo. The band logo should be visable, along with the song name, copyright information, barcode, and any additional text necessary. I've been looking at different CD's to establish how it should be laid. I decided that a majority of the text will be in the corners of the design, with the name of the song either in the mouth, or written around it .

This is the image in development in photoshop. The layers which mad ethe mouth were merged together an place on a back with the text overlapping. It was made on Photoshop CS5 and elements 5.0.
This is the mouth seperate from the background. Made on several layers with different shading and effects overlaying. This is what will be cut out and stuck on a design of choice. Most likely worn text or newspaper, to keep it in similar style with the image of the band, and other material involved in the digi-pak.

This is the finished design without the newspaper background. This will be added later. In the right-hand corner is the copyright information an barcode. The barcode was draw and the text was copied from the back of an existing CD: The Script - Science and Faith. In the left corners are a web address (which is fictional) and the band logo.

This is an enlarged version of the band logowhich will appear on all material related to the band. The groups title is 'Little Black Dress' with a broken heart for obious reasons. As standard the logo is black and pink, but this will be changed to best suit the other colours present, such as in the back cover above where it is all white.