Montage design for music DVDs

I have been working on some CD and DVD packaging for a music creation software company. I love doing stuff to do with music and here I was asked to create some montages to express different musical genres.

The montages will eventually go on large sierra boxes (a sierra box is a large cardboard box for software containing a DVD case and other printed material), DVD cases and the DVDs themselves as well as other promotional material.

Dance music montage

The dance montage was to capture a dance, house, deep house, tech house vibe.

World music montage

This montage was for world, dub, latin, reggae and ethnic.

Rock music montage

And this was for alternative, grunge, rock and pop. What do you think?

This article was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Design, Photoshop.
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9 Responses to “Montage design for music DVDs”

Gabriel, on November 16th, 2007 at 11:51 pm, said:

Wow! These are very nice montages, Rob. I wish I were like you!
Rob Cubbon, on November 17th, 2007 at 7:15 pm, said:

Thank you, Gabriel. But this is easy to do. It’s just a question of playing around with blend modes in the Layers palette in Photoshop, simple gradient masks and colouring. I’ll be doing more tutorials about montages soon.
Michael, on November 19th, 2007 at 3:35 am, said:

That is extremely cool. I work at a cd/dvd duplication/packagin company in Chicago. I look forward to your tutorials about montage. Your color schemes are simply amazing. Keep up the good work. I will keep you in mind.
Rob Cubbon, on November 20th, 2007 at 3:11 pm, said:

Thank you, Michael, I do a lot of CD/DVD packaging for music/computer games companies and I always enjoy it.
Richard, on October 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm, said:

Those are very beautiful montages, how long did it take you to get this process down in photoshop. I am thinking about taking a photoshop class myself to learn these skills.
kalym babb, on November 10th, 2008 at 3:09 am, said:

im so inspierd by your montages after seein them i tryed one myself .im now learning so seein your work really gives me ideas thanks. im a sudent i wonder if you cud gie me any tips on how to go agout in this type of art .
real estate florianopolis, on March 26th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, said:

Very good montages, congratulations!
Rob Cubbon, on March 31st, 2009 at 10:40 am, said:

Thank you Richard, it’s hard to say how long these montages took me in Photoshop as I remember the brief changing a bit as I was doing them but they shouldn’t take more than an hour if you get the right picture combination to start with.

Hello again kalym I’m glad you are inspired by these montages. More design tips in the rest of this website.

Thank you real estate florianopolis.
Sierra boxes and amaray cases for CD and DVD packaging | Blog | Graphic and Web Designer London UK, on April 6th, 2010 at 9:55 am, said:

[...] It was a great bit of work to be involved with. Check out the original montages I did for the packaging. [...]

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