12. The ability to merge photos would be quite useful for me
because I can show overlap patterns onto an original
photo and this helps me design my album cover
because as I mentioned, in the collection, I quite liked
Tenie Tempah's idea of putting a city into his hands. I
think I might use some elements of that in my cover
because city and skyscrapers represents life. I believe
that pop music is closely related with that because it is
quite fast and energetic. This is similar to city life.

14. Hardmix
Softlight
Overlay

15. This is useful for my album cover because this
would highlight the features of the person and for
pop music is quite popular in discos and stage, so
using a spotlight effect might create the
atmosphere and the cover would look more like a
pop music album cover to the audience. Also if I
know how to delete a background, it will be easier
for me to arrange photos together.

18. There are a couple of things that I learnt in this tutorial which
might be useful for me in my cover album project, one is adding
a outer glow to a shape. This would help me in my cover album
design because I wanted to add a neon ring around my image
as most pop album covers I looked at had neon colours on
them. The ring would attract people's attention and it adds
energy into the piece and this relates to the fast and strong
beat of pop music. I also learnt how to rotate or distort shapes
or images and this might help me as well because I might want
to paste some 2 images together and things might not fit that
easily, so rotating the image or changing the size might help.

20. I think that after I went through this tutorial and made my
owl final product, I am more confident on how to design my
album cover. Before, I had the idea of adding glow lines in
bright colours and sparkles around the text or my body to
make the objects stand out more but I wasn't sure how to
do that. But after finishing this tutorial/course, I not only
learnt how to add sparkles, I also learnt how to add a
transparent rainbow gradient and I learnt how to use the
lens flare tool.

23. I think that after this tutorial, I learnt how to add some glows
to a particular figure and not the whole of the canvas (this is
what I did in lighting effects 1). This might be useful for me
because if I wanted an object to stand out with neon colours
in my album cover, I can do it by using what I learnt in this
tutorial.

26. I quite liked this album cover’s font which is a sparkly energetic font. I
think that I would be able to use the sparkly idea onto my album cover
because in a lot of pop album covers, they have the idea of a disco or
dance and I think sparkly text can represent that. Another thing that I
would like to point out is that the “s” in KISS is written in a lightning kind of
way. I think that is really creative and there might be a chance that I would
do some kind of lightning font in my album cover because it gives more
energy and pop music is quite fast so I think it blends quite well with the
genre that I am choosing.

27. After looking at this album cover, I realize that the font must really go
with the album name and what the songs are all about. This is
because this font gives me a quite lively happy big feeling and the
type of songs in this album is quite positive. I also think that I might
emphasize on some letters that I want the audience to see first by
making them really big because when I looked at this album cover, I
saw straight away the “C” and the “J”, so this proves that it is quite
effective to vary the font size of different letters.

28. I particularly liked this album cover because of it’s creativity. I think it was a
great idea to put the font as an object in the album cover and the contrast
between the 3D shapes and the 2D shapes really makes the album name
stand out more. I think that this font expresses an idea of roads and city
because everything is joined together. This might be useful for my album
cover because I think I am going to add elements of city life into the cover
as I think city directly relates to pop music as they share a lot of
similarities, e.g. fast and loud.

29. This album cover’s font makes people think about grafitti and more of the
bad side of a city. The colours under the words illustrates the idea of disco
lights shining from below and I think that I might use some elements of that
in my album cover because pop music is quite popular in discos. I also
think that pop music has this hard and wild side and I think this type of font
expresses the same idea as well. Also from this album cover, I can see that
there must be contrast between the colours of the font and the background
to make the words stand out.

30. I think that this album cover is the best that I’ve seen and it really
expresses the idea of energy and life in it. This is because the font is
like a bully’s handwriting so it fits in with the idea of riot. The energy
comes from the idea of lots of exclamation marks and messiness of
the handwriting. I might use some elements of the font in my album
cover because I think that pop music expresses someone’s feeling
straight to the point and the font is quite hard and edgy, so I think
this relates to the genre quite well.

32. I think I will be able to use this effect on
my album cover because I think it gives
people the idea of disco lights shining
from the words and the various colours
gives me a sense of liveliness. I think this
relates to pop music because pop music
has a fast and strong beat so I think the
disco theme and the energy fits into the
idea quite well. I also had a glance
through the tutorial and I don’t it will be
too challenging to make this kind of text
effect.

33. I think this type of font reflects on the idea
of pop music because the firework bits on
each of the letter once again gives the idea
of energy and happiness to the words. I
think pop music has elements of that in it
because it is usually dance music and
dance involves a lot of energy. However, if I
can I would like to change the font of this
text to a more wild and lively font because I
think this font is too relaxing and
soft, which doesn’t fit with the idea of pop
music.

34. I think I had already mentioned this
before but I would like to say again that I
think I would add neon colours to my
album cover. This is because this is quite
popular within pop music album covers
and therefore I think this kind of text
effect might be useful for me. I think the
neon glow around the font gives me a
sense of dynamism and illumination. I
think this relates to pop music because
pop music is filled with adrenaline and
beat.

35. I think this font gives me a sense of
freedom and another world. The
lines are just going wild and it is not
neat and I think this shows some
elements of pop music because
pop music can make someone go
crazy, alive and let someone go to
a place that they’ve never been
before. This font gives people a
sense of another dimension and I
think that this is what pop music is
all about.

36. I really like this font effect because a
heartbeat sign gives people an idea
of alive and I think the strong fast
beat of pop music is similar to this
heart rate that is going really fast.
Also when I listen to pop music, I
think my heart rate goes a bit faster
because of the quick pace of it so I
think this text effect would work quite
well with the energetic and lively
idea of pop music.

37. I think that the idea of merging texts with
images or patterns is quite good because
it expresses two things at once. I think
that I might use this text effect because I
think city and pop music is have a lot in
common. They both represent an idea of
liveliness and a fast pace life. So I think
merging words into buildings or making
them part of a city on a album cover is
quite unique and it really illustrates what
genre the album is.

39. Graffiti
I quite like this font because I think that it is quite bold which
stands out and the sprays at the back reflects on the casual
style of writing in the pop music album.
Casual
I think this style of handwriting reflects on the quick and energetic
pace of pop music because it is writen quite messily with
scribbles everywhere. Also this font demonstrates the idea of
hardness because of all the straight lines used in the text.
Distorted
I think this is my favourite font from what I’ve looked at so far
because it really reflects on the idea of a beat and energy. The
words are quite bold and sharp so it seems quite punchy which fits
the idea of pop music.

40. Sci Fi
I think this font is quite simple and easier to read but it
still reflects on the punchy and quick beat of pop music
because of the sharp bits of the letters. I think I would
want the spacing between each words a bit smaller, so
it would give a fast pace, energetic feeling.
Fire
I think this font really illustrates the idea of energy because of
the fire shape at the bottom. However, it might be quite hard
to see this font because the words seemed to have
disappeared in the white background, so if I use this font, I
would have to put a contrasting colour as the background.