Working on the inside - how i created the CD

Working on the inside - how i created the CD

I am using Adobe Photoshop to create my digipak. I started off by using the shape tool in which i created a circle and then another circle within that circle to make it look like a disc. I made sure the disc took up the whole page. This is illustrated in the image below.

Secondly, i picked the image i wanted to use to put on my CD. The group and I purposely went out and took pictures within our local area to use for our digipak's. This is one of the images i decided to take. I decided to take this image because i felt it suits our music video and is appropriate as there is sunshine and the artist is looking right up to it. This is a sign of synergy because sunshine is used throughout our music video so when you see this CD you should relate it to the music video. After selecting my image I opened it up in Photoshop and selected the "Eclipse tool". The eclipse tool gave me the ability to cut a circle out of the image as you can see in the image below the white dotted circle line is when i had the eclipse tool in use. 

Finally, after cutting out a circle of my image i allocated it where i had the initial disc template which i created earlier. As i had the template i didn't have any problem with size and where it should be. To make it easier i just put the circular image over the blank CD shape. I did this by putting the circular images layer over the CD shapes layer, however i then didn't have the small white circle in the middle but soon realized i had to put the small circles layer over the images layer. In the end the first layer was the small circle followed by the image and then finally the big circle. The finished CD is shown below on the right hand side.