So for the development we started off with taking pictures of Alicia's hand. During the development of the cover we bumped into several problems. The first problem was one of the main images: We took a photo of Alicia's hand, and when we printed out the cover we found out that the back and front of the CD didn't connect as there was a hand shown on the front but nothing on the back.
Original Photo (we deleted the background and then turned the rest of the image into black and white, after this we posterized the image, so you could see the difference in colour better (white, light grey, grey, dark grey, black etc. We did this all using Photoshop)
(We started off with a single holder, later on in the process we changed it to a double one, the one that is shown here is a single one)
We thought black and white would be good colours in combination with Justice. Their original album is black with gold, two very strong colours. However, just a black background is according to us a bit boring. So we made the gradient map change, that is why the inside of the album goes from black to white. Using flares we pimped the inside up a bit.
Then again, the hand didn't fit on the cover perfectly so we had to think about something else; taking pictures of the whole arm and hand together. So we did:
Changing this photo into black and white was a lot more difficult than the previous photo. Mainly because this photo was bigger and you couldn't see that much detail anymore, but also because this photo was taken a couple of days later and Alicia had painted her nails red. This meant that you could not see the nails that easily, which made the picture less interesting. Therefore we had to find another solution, either the arm had to stay colourfull, or the background. The big question that arised was the fact that the background looked quite dull, so how could we have turned that into colours? Plus, we had to think about the fact that the arm could have easily taken away the the attention from the rest, as we wanted to have the word Justice hovering above the hand. This meant that making the arm and hand black and white was the best solution and just go for the colourful background.
With the quick selection tool in Photoshop we selected the whole arm and hand, made it black and white and then posterised it. After this we deselected the arm and used the quick selection tool again to select the background. With the paint tool we gave the background a different colour, slightly purple/pink. Still having the background selected we made a yellow boll above the hand, which represents some light, as if something is lighting up. This is the place where the word Justice should be hovering. Again, we selected the whole background, including the yellow boll and posterised it. Personally we thought the effect and the result was amazing. Even though the colour did not really suit Justice. The effect of the posterisation was amazing.
The next step was to think of the typefaces and fonts, (see the blog Typography). We thought Bauhaus 93 would be the best typeface for Justice. We had put it in the illustration etc.
We filled the inside and the outside (this is the outside) up with this typeface. However, when it came to printing it out it printed it out in a totally different font. All of a sudden the computer did not recognise this typeface anymore and we could not download it either anymore. We first thought of keeping a simple typeface as we did not want to go through the effort of finding another one and to find out that one was not working either. Matt however, went to fontspace. com and quickly found a typeface that was even better than Bauhaus 93 and suited Justice even better. 'As if it was meant to be'. 
The typeface looks special, but it looks even better when it is used in the word Justice. See for yourself; 
It is as of there is a line going accross the S, T and the I, holding these letters together.
After including the name Justice and having the image on the CD it was time to look at the other things a CD includes, examples of this are the bar code and the tracks.
Of course the size will be reduced on the album. We found a typeface for the tracks that combined perfectly with Bauhaus 93; Copperplate, therefore we put the rest of the information in this typeface. Luckily when we found out we could not use Bauhaus 93 and therefore instead were going to use Final Frontier old style, we also found out that Final Frontier old style went perfectly together with Copperplate.
We got the original Justice Album (Cross) an copied as much information as possible onto our own CD-Cover. We also copied the Ed Banger Records logo onto our Album.
When we were finally finished, the teacher told us he did not like the colour of the album. In a way he was right; it looked good but it did not suit Justice. That was when we decided to make the album look darker. Not just because the original album was black, but darker colours suite Justice better. We also cut out the word Justice in both the inside and outside. We left the inside blanc so that when you open it you can see the CD but on the outside we stuck gold shiny paper onto the inside so it looked as if the album is more in depth.
Outside Front
Outside Back
The inside contains more information, but then about the songs. It tells exactly which songs are sung by a choir or not etc. It also shows photo's of the booklet, they are like little thumbnail.
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