With the inside of my digipak, I wanted to maintain the same look as I have with the front and back of my album. Therefore I kept the black background. My first thought of what to do was the main image. I faded the bottom of the image to it matched the shadows to the right of the picture and kept its darkness to the image. This is the difference between the original and the faded.
I then wanted to add the logo once again, but in a different manner. I decided to play around with Photoshop to edit the logo and see how I could manipulate the logo. This is what I came u with.
I now needed to fill the page a bit more. So as another convention used in hip hop, I added text below the image. I attempted the text going over the top, down the side, even on top on the image (without the logo) but just below the image not only follows the conventions better but looks better also. The text would consist of producers, executive producers and management etc.
I decided to remove the logo going across the main image due to the majority of insides of CD cases being very simple. I also changed some of the script in the text I added and made it more relevant to the situation by making Jerard, Jody, Kyle and myself the producers. The text is also now more clearer and larger.
Like many hip-hop albums, the inside would consist of something that is already on the front. Here are a few examples.
So I added the same title from the front...
I was browsing through other pictures I have of Abul playing R.I.C.O. and found another image I feel i could use for the inside of my digipak. I rubbed out his whole body apart from the chain, his face and his hand. This way we can see the symbolism of wealth (chain), his hand which points to his name (emphasis on R.I.C.O.) and his face which promotes him. Here's what I came up with.
While creating the right side of the inside of the digipak, I realised the writing I placed beneath the main image, is mainly used on the CD like in the Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls album shown above.
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