EXAMPLES OF A 6 SIDED DIGIPAK

When I was looking for some examples of 6 sided digipaks I could only find one professionally released digipak from a well-established artist, ACDC released a greatest hits album and because of how many songs they had they released a 6 sided one but had 3 CDs, here is this digipak and I think it is a very good example of a digipak that suits it genre.

The reason I like this genre is because of how well it suits the rock genre, the flames and typography are dark and aggressive that go hand in hand with the powerful music of ACDCs rock.

The fact that I could only find one 6-sided digipak released professionally makes me want to make a 6 sided one even more now because there is less competition and no benchmark to match so I will be going off my own back with my design and style.

CHOOSING THE TEMPLATE FOR MY DIGIPAK

In this post I will be talking about my digipak, when I started to plan the design for my digipak I had to pick a template for it, I had two options for my digipak and here are these options.

There is a 4-sided digipak template that is dead basic and limits you to what techniques you can use as well as it doesn’t allow you to use as many pictures as you want.

Then there is a 6-sided digipak template with more fold out sides, this kind of template allows you to use more techniques, more pictures and all round a better digipak.

After finding out about these designs I have decided to choose a 6 sided digipak so I can show off my photoshop skills and it allows me to use more photos as there are a lot of good shots that I have and it is easier for me to pick six rather than narrow it down to 4.

WHAT IS A DIGIPAK?

In this post I will be explaining to you what a digipack is, for ancillary task I have to make a digipack for my album that I will be releasing, a digipack is basically a CD cover but it isn’t just the cover it covers everything from the spine to the actual CD.

I will have to make a digipack that contains at least:

·         Front cover

·         Back cover

·         2 spines

·         Inside cover

·         And a CD.

Here is the online definition of a Digipack.