The document discusses the process of designing an album cover in Photoshop. Some key points: - Effects like distort and diffuse glow were used to add contrast and brightness to a photo. Lyrics were added in the text tool. - Photoshop layers and effects like balance, stroke length, and sharpness were used to make a triangle overlay the photo seamlessly. - An initial basic cover was improved in the final draft by making it more vibrant, colorful, and engaging for the target audience while keeping the sea theme and message of unity. - Photoshop was used to import the cover, compress it, and adjust the brightness to make it stand out more on the flyer

2. Using photo shop I used the
filters at the top of the page, I
filtered through distort and
diffuse glow giving the picture
a contrasting brightness to it

3. On half of my album sleeve, I decided
to use the normal text tool on photo
shop to write the lyrics to the song,
something I have found in the
majority of album covers I have
looked at during the research stage of
this.
I placed the down the left hand side of
the page and simply –placed this over
the top of the picture

4. By using these effect i9 can take a layer out of the work and work 0n it separately
to the piece, using the artistic effects on Photoshop you can change the balance,
stroke length and sharpness, I u8sed this to make the triangle see though to over
lap on to the sleeve picture.

5. First draft of album Final draft cover
cover
The album cover keeps with This cover engages the
the sea theme I wanted but target audience with eh
also is basic and did not vibrant colour and the
show of the skills I used to serenity of the picture
create it, also this is quite used, the theme of unity
dull and consist of two and triangles is carried
colours, I didn't feel this through this, it challenges
challenged the average the average conventions
conventions of an album by being simplistic yet
cover. effective

6. Final draft First draft

7. Using Photoshop I
imported the album
cover and compressed it
to stop the image pixel
ting, then put it into
publisher top change
the brightness of the
picture to make it stand
out

8. The flyer shows sponsorship ,w e as a
band are sponsored by this clothing
company, make us strong clothing,
Monroe line, I felt this would give a
professional touch to it

10. research
I had to find similar band to compare with mine to really give me an idea of
the audience I was looking to target
With all the album artworks I researched I decided to target 16+ male and
female and decided that the consisting factor of all of them is a picture
central to the cover I used and challenged this by flipping this idea of
having the artwork plain with the logo of the band being central.

11. I decide3d for my video to target such a niche market that the video
would have to have a light side in parallel to the song, this was done
with soft touch to the shot to make the video have a warm vibe about
it, this way the audience get the feeling of what it is like to be in the
band, this makes them feel closer to the band.