Do's and Don't' of Design Work

During our Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Lesson for our Digipak, we were shown an example of 'what not to do' on a digipak and we were given a task to re-create a better digipak using the same pictures. and here is my unfinished version of it.

For the front cover, I have manipulated the picture by cropping out the subjects from the white background so that I could move it around the page. I have also selected 'Filter' -> 'Sketch' -> 'Halftone' -> 'Pattern' to have the red-orange outcome. I have chosen this effect as I wanted to make it look vibrant. For the back cover, I have added a swirly shape which looks like a road, barcodes and a company logo. There are still a lot of things that are missing. So here are the Do's and Don't' of Design Work.

Do's'

- Use clear photos

- Use appropriate colours that links with the whole digipak

- Keep in mind where you put the texts, barcodes, logos, copyright names, dates and images.

- Use clear and appropriate fonts.

- Keep in mind and follow the rule of thirds when taking photographs.

- Keep in mind the sizes of the fonts and images

-Use an appropriate photos and layout that suits your genre.

Don't'

- Do not forget to include the sides

-Stretch images

-Use too many colours, unless it suits your type of genre

-Use unnecessary effects 

-Use fonts that are too difficult to read and understand.

-Position your texts where it blocks the image of the artist