CD Cover Practice

I have created a CD cover as a mock up. This was not intended to be too pretty but a demonstration of how to use separate areas of the page.

Below you can seen the guide lines marking out the edges and divisions of the CD case format.

CD Cover - Photoshop Screenshot

Each area has been marked out using vector drawn rectangles. To the right and left are the
spine edges, given an over-done bevel and emboss layer style set to hard chisel and full depth and size. The long panel to the left has a less extreme version of the style added, this gave it a more normal raised area, such as normal embossing.

The large blue upside-down L shape at the top and left has a slight bevel, inner shadow, inner glow and satin effect, I adjusted all of these to try and get a very smooth raised effect, almost as if it was moulded plastic.

The bar code has no effects placed on it as this is how it should be for a CD cover.

A small area at the bottom has been made for the legal jargon, substituted with bla bla bla, given a reflected gradient overlay of black to white, blended with the dark blue of the original rectangle.

A highly embossed red rectangle is seen to the left of the legal box, this was constructed similarly to the title rectangle to the left of it.

The yellow rectangle had a satin effect with the distance extended to produce an almost retro effect.

The picture in the middle was placed below a rectangle set to screen blend mode. The rectangle had an inner shadow effect with a multiply blend mode on an 0 px distance, 45% coke and 250px size, creating an grainy, darkened effect.

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CD Cover - Complete

Thanks to the the phonogram comic, rue britannia, for the image found in the cover gallery. 
(phonogram comics, accessed 18/2/14, http://www.phonogramcomic.com/ruegallery.html)