Editing our front cover together was quite simple once we had figured out which image would suit the front of the CD cover best. We thought that it was essential that the lead singer was the central image since, as the band are quite small, we wished to make it clear and easily recognisable as 'littlewing'. We also made sure to edit the image on Photoshop to make sure the colours were soft and thus reflect their music and overall tone. Initially we were not going to have the white border/polaroid look, in fact this came about as some relief since we could not crop the original image any further or it would look out of shape/unrecognisable. The white border made it easily fit in with the dimensions of a digipak and it actually fit in with the conventions of the indie genre - being 'retro'. The polaroid aspect fits in nicely with the band and thus, the digipak and was also a great problem solver.
Similarly, this use of a white border had been used throughout many other indie bands' Cd front covers, such as Vampire Weekend's album 'Contra':
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