1. I did my album cover of Calvin Harris, I re-designed his album “18 months”.
I was inspired to do this album because I like Calvin´s music a lot, and I know many
of his songs. To do this I used tools like for example, the lasso tools, the quick
selecting tool, the eraser, tool and many more tools.
I had lots of difficulties doing the album cover. First, I was starting to do a
deadmau5 album, and did almost everything. I did the album cover and back cover.
Then I just saw it, and realized that I could do much better than that, so I decided
to do a new album. I did a Calvin Harris album. I also had some very basic
difficulties. For example, at some points, I just did not know what to put next. I felt
this way a lot, but specially when I was working in the last thing, the inside cover.
For the front cover, I got a photo of Calvin´s face right next to a flame at night, so it
looked really cool. Then, I cut some logos (one of Calvin Harris, and the other one
of the album title, 18 months), and put them in the image. In the back cover, I just
put a black background, then put the Calvin Harris logo, and finally put a list of
songs. On the inside cover, I did not know what to do, I was blank. I had no ideas.
After a while, I found out that I wanted it to be really complex, and with lots of
details and using many tools, but I realized that it does not have to be complex to
be good, so I decided to do it simple, not vey complex. I just found a photo in the
internet of an X filled with colours, and put on top a disc with two logos: The first is
the Calvin Harris logo and the other one is the album title logo (18 months).
If I had the chance to re-do this project, I would be sure of what I would
want to do since the beginning, to not re-do it again and to have more time and less
pressure to do this project. I would also wold have liked to use more all of the
tools. I had many difficulties, but at the end, I really enjoyed doing this project and
learning photoshoping techniques.