Amaray DVD Paper Sleeve - Putting All Together Second Attempt

Layout Changes and Description

After discussion and overview with my tutor of my work, I have done some changes in the layout of the papers sleeve. As you can see in the images bellow, there are compared two layouts: old and new.

 Old Layout

New Layout

     Changed front of the case because decided, that in bottom it is missing symbol which show minimum age range of the auditory. At the top I added some logo, advertise symbol and kind of logo, to make it look more attractive, informative and professional.
     Back of the case got reduced count of images, to make it less messy and that background would be more visible.
     In the spine panel I reduced amount of information, to make case more tidy with less details and text.

Waves changes

Using "Hue/Saturation" effect and the "Eraser", I did add colors and effects to the waves at the top of front cover.

In the image bellow we can see layers of waves and hue/saturation. The reason of split image from hue/saturation effect in to different layers is that in the future could be easy to edit or remove effects.

(before changes)

(after changes)

Front Cover Changes

Because bottom of the front cover was too empty, I did move five images wider with more spaces between. This change did fill up bottom of the top cover.

(before changes)

(after changes)

Back cover changes

Using "Hue/Saturation" effect and "Eraser", I did change movie description area adding yellow color and red circles. This change I did because previous version was too simple and not so attractive as after changes.

(before changes)

(after changes)

As the most DVD case examples I have over viewed, most of them have description and actors presenting in the movie at the back of the cover. So my main chosen actors I did add at the back of the sleeve.

(before changes, Celebrity Gossip, 2013)

Using tools like "Eraser", "Lasso Tool", "Magnetic Lasso Tool", "Polygonal Lasso Tool", "Quick Selection Tool", Magic Wand Tool" I did manage to remove old background from image leaving only actors. The reason why did I used so many tool is that actors are dressed in black color clothes and background was black color. So was not easy to separate different objects similar color.

(removed background)

("Superman", 1978)

(Merged "The Hoover Dam" and actors)

(result)

Using "Hue/Saturation" effect and "Eraser" tool, I did change all image color to blue, then using "Eraser" I did clean faces from blue color leaving only them original colors. This action and changes gives more attention to faces of the actors and all surrounding area is in blue color not so sensible for eyes and similar colors to a papers sleeve background where dominate water, waves, blue and white color.

Second step was to add frames using "Rectangle" tool and changing colors.

Third step was to add blue starts on the corners of frames and waves. To do this I did use "Brush" tool with special effects.

(after changes)

The last attempt over view present in the bottom image.

References:

Celebrity Gossip. 2013. "Red 2" Screens At MOMA. [ONLINE] Available at: http://celebrity-gossip.net/red-2/story. [Accessed 30 March 14].

Complex Pop Culture. 2010. The Hoover Dam's Collapse. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/11/50-worst-special-effects-movie-history/superman. [Accessed 30 March 14].