I am editing my album cover in Adobe Photoshop, I have used the picture that I chose when I analysed my photoshoot, on a previous date. The first thing I did was to change the effect of the image, as I don't think a colourful image, would suit the theme of my song, or my artist, I used the 'rough edges' effect, that is found on this software. However, the positioning of my image, does not follow the conventions of an album cover, so I will have to reposition this, in order to fit my album name, and artist name on the cover. I will also need to add a background as there is to much white space. In order to edit this image, I will need to rasterize the layer that is highlighted in the image above, I will do this by right clicking, and selecting rasterize, this will allow me to transform my image in anyway that I would like.
As you can see, I have re-positioned my image, so that the picture looks properly positioned, because of the angle of my artists head, I have chosen that it would be most appropriate coming from the right hand corner. I think the image is effective, as it is a direct address to the audience, as my artist is looking straight at them, this makes them feel more involved, like it is popping out at them, it is also more inviting rather than my artist looking away from them, I also think this is appropriate seeing as it is the 'front cover' so therefore she should not be looking behind. I still need to add my background, and also my album name.
For my background, I have chosen to use the same background that is seen on my artists webpage, this shows continuity between the album and website. The image is a crumbled up piece of paper, I think this looks effective, as the effect I have used, makes the image looks drawn, therefore its a good contrast with the paper background. I have also added a bevel and emboss effect to my background, so that the creases in the paper are more defined, so people can make out what the background is. To make my image viewable, I had to use the 'magic eraser' tool, however, I was unable, to show the background on her neck, but fortunately, I don't think this looks out of place.
I have decided to name my album 'broken' as I think it is a good representation of how my artist is feeling, after the song 'Wrecking Ball.' I created my title on www.dafont.com, where I print screened the image, and then cropped it in word, whilst making the image transparent, so it was coherent with the background. I used this font, as it is each letter is from news paper clippings, which have been broken away individually, therefore I thought this would be an appropriate font to use for my album, the text is also black and white to fit in with my image. As you can see, I have written my artists name in the corner, but I don't think that looks very authentic, as it is in just a plain sans serif font, and is not very eye catching, so I will have to re-do that.
As you can see here, I have created my artists name, in the same font as my album title, however, it doesn't fit in properly so I will have to re-position my main image, to make that fit. I have also used an effect with the rubber, to make it look like a piece of the album has been burnt, as this also fits in with the lyrics of my song, and is 'broken' which is the title of my album.
Here you can see that my artists image has been re-positioned so that the texts fits on the album cover.
Finished Front Cover!
My inspiration for my album is the Beatles album 'Revolver' as the artists have been computerised so that they look drawn, I find this very authentic, and think it looks really good, this is why I have chosen to do my album cover like this. When I was researching album covers, I also found that a majority had a black and white colour theme, so I decided to use this aspect, when creating my album cover.
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