What programmes and skills I used when making my album cover.

1. How I made my album cover

2. First of all I selected the photo I
wanted to use and imported it into
Photoshop
I then
began
editing the
vibrancy,
colour
balance,
hue and
brightness.

3. After editing my photo
looked like this. I didn’t want
it to be black and white and
you can still see the green of
the leaves. It has made the
photo look faded and old and
slightly eerie. However by
keeping it still quite bright it
has stopped it from looking
gothic.
However, I felt it looked too plain like this and I
decided I wanted to enhance the colour of the
skirt to draw your attention to the artist.

4. To do this I used the lasso tool and carefully drew
around the skirt, which looked like this.
I then had to select this area and copy
and paste it into a new layer to then be
edited.

5. After editing the skirt, the front
cover now looks like this. As you can see the
colour on the skirt is
a lot brighter and the
purple stands out
against the grey scale
of the background.

6. The last thing I did in Photoshop was
cutting down the photo into the square
size I wanted to then import into
InDesign and add the text.
Once imported into InDesign I had to
adjust the size of the photo to fit with
the guidelines.

7. I then began to experiment with fonts and
colour for my artists name and title of the
album. Until I eventually decided on these
two.

8. The finished front cover then looked like this.

9. This meant I had to use ruler guides to make
sure the photo was positioned correctly and so
in line with the front cover.
I only used a small part of my original photo for
the front cover, so I decided to continue the
photo to use as my traycard.
As well as the ruler guides, I also used the
measuring tool to measure the size of my model
on the front to get the dimensions of the photo
equal on both the front and the back.

10. After all the measuring, aligning and cropping of the photo I was left with this as
my tray card.

11. Now that I had my photo I had to position my song list
and my album credits. I decided to use the same font
for my song list as I did for my title.

12. To finish I just needed to add the couple of music logos
and bar code and parental advisory sticker.