I have created a daft for my case cover, without photos as yet. I used a noise based background, conveniently after looking for a texture online I found photoshop had one the closest to what I wanted, and just had to scale it to the size I wanted.
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| Background Texture |
Then I added a continuous text overlay in bold consolas font with the tracking and line spacing decreased, and false bold applied to make a denser texture, with a dropped shadow so it sits above a noisy background. This is very much the effect I was going for, very spooky.
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| Text effect |
The title, front cover and spine text are layer masks created using the type mask tools in consolas as before but adjusted to sit only a little closer to each other. It has a drop
shadow protruding from it and a glow within the mask. Each of these
effects were adjusted with a large amount of noise to enhance the
general electromagnetic apparition effect, and size and other settings
adjusted for visual clarity of the text. An inner bevel was applied to
each as well however the only text that seem particularly enhanced is
the text at the bottom of the front cover.
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| Title and text |
A black box for the legal info was added on the back, the 18+ certificate was added to the top right of the box and the bottom of the spine. A barcode was added to the bottom right of the box. An L shape taking up the remaining space to allow the text to natually fill the empty area. The text was simply lorem ipsum in kalinga font with the height increased 25% and the width decreased 25%, to make it look more like the text on DVD backs.
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| Legal Box |
Three transparent boxes were added together on the back for the blurb so it could fill the space between where I wanted image boxes to be on the back. The text was a bold consolas as before but without the adjustments to make it so packed in.
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| Blurb |
A transparent box was placed at the centre of the front page and 3 additional ones on the back, extra care was taken to make sure a 16:9
image would fit in these. Then I applied an outer glow with half full
noise so the image can sort of static in to the foreground.
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| Draft, complete |
