Panels 2, 3 and 4

Panels 2, 3 and 4

I took my idea of a panoramic image stretching over the 3 inside panels.

 To do this, I took several images one after the other whilst panning the camera. I then took these individual images (above) and had to merge them together in order to form one long panoramic image.

I selected File > Automate > Photomerge... and selected all of the images to be merged

This is the resulting image, after photoshopping to match my inner panel vintage colour scheme:

From here, I cropped the image into 3 equal sized 'panels':

These three now individual photos fit together like a puzzle to form the panorama.
I individually resized them to 11.2cm width and 11.7cm height so that they have the dimensions of a CD digipak. I added text to panel 2 in white, over the darker section of the panel. I found this text too bright; it stood out too much against the background whereas it should match the image and allow the eye to be drawn to the image rather than the writing. To solve this, I lowered the opacity, so that the writing merges with the background more.

I added writing also to panel 4. For this panel, I placed it in the sky of the image, and used a colour picked from the plants in the image rather than just using black. I found this suited the scheme of the image, again allowing the writing to match the background rather than stand out against it. Again, I lowered the opacity a bit.

Now that the individual panels are completed, I needed to stitch the three together to form the panorama once again, but leaving small gaps between the panels. For this, I created a new document in PhotoShop, 3x the length of each panel, + a few millimetres to allow for gaps. I then added each panel into the document and filled the bottom layer with black.

The Final Outcome!

Feedback:
Grace Papworth says: "The panoramic theme is interesting and looks cool! Try adding the light streak from the front cover onto the panoramic to keep the theme of light going all the way through the digipak."
Ms Barton also suggested adding the light streak to the panoramic to encorporate the theme of light that is seen in the other panels.