Today's work: CD Front cover mock up

Measurements of CD cover: 
For Photoshop

Front cover & Back Cover:
139mm x 125mm

Spine:
6.5mm x 125.5mm

How I made my CD Cover:

First, I customised the size of the page so that the width was longer than the height, in order to mimic the actual measurements of a CD cover. Then I split the page in half and drew a black line down the centre, to imitate the spinal cord of a CD. Then I placed the picture onto the left-hand side, as that's what I want for the front cover.

Then I spent some time messing around with the fonts. I wanted to settle for one that helped connote the genre and fit inline with the style of the cover and song name.

I also googled 'what type of fonts rap CD's and posters used', so that it would appear more realistic.

I finally settled for 'Viner Hand ITC'.

Here I added the 'Parental advisory, explicit content' logo, as that's what CD covers tend to include, as a warning to younger viewers of some of the themes it contains.

In these 2 pictures below, I played around with the look of the spine and which font would look better for it. I wanted something that was similar to the font used for the title, but more professional and that matches the colour scheme.

Now the front cover of the CD cover is finished, it looks like the above picture.