The document describes the steps taken to create an album cover, including: 1. Creating a square format and gradient overlay for potential future use. 2. Adding a dark fade at the bottom to add a dark ominous feel and deleting the background from a photo of themselves to place on the cover. 3. Positioning additional images and layers behind and in front of other elements to create visual effects and blend the cover together.

2. I created my album cover using this size because it is a perfect
square.

3. I created a gradient overlay using these settings so that I could
potentially use it in the future.

4. This is what I did to change the colour spread of the gradient.

5. The next thing I did was add that dark fade at the bottom of my album and
this is what I did. I did this so that it added a dark ominous feel.

6. What I did here was delete the background from a picture of
myself, then I put it on the album cover.

7. Next, I put the image on the right into my album cover in a layer,
behind the layer of myself. This is so that I could use it later on.

8. I decided that the dark blue background wasn’t what I was trying to convey,
so I changed the colours so that it was a darkish grey colour.

9. What I did here was chose a brush and plotted a shadowy sort of feel
on the layer of myself. So that it would create a dark misty effect.

10. I duplicated the layer of the image in Step 6, after that I created a mask
and selected a black colour. I did this so that when I painted the black, the
image would begin to appear and thus I created an image like the one
above.

11. For this I did the same as above except I inverted the mask and
used a white colour to create a different effect. The reason I did
this effect was to add texture to the album cover.

12. For this I did the same effect as the last two except that I positioned it
sideways along the bottom to that makes the effect come from the bottom.

13. I used five layers for the whole effect so it gave an ominous aura.

14. Next I found this image on the internet and inserted it above
my album cover.

15. Firstly I changed the opacity so that it would blend nicely with
the album cover.

16. After that I changed the black and whites of the photo to make it
go with the theme.

17. Finally I moved it so that its layer was in front of the background layer
but behind the others and then repositioned it. I chose to add this in
because it gave a much more interesting background and when it
coexists with the background gradient a, it creates a interesting gradient.

18. To cover up some space and leave a focus in the only blank space left
(which is where the original gradient is), I took an image of cracked
glass, changed its opacity and positioned it so that it fit nicely in the album
cover.

19. To create a shadowy 3D effect typography I had to write the word in a text box
and duplicate it many times (in this case 9). Then I had to individually move
every layer a bit over to the left and up a bit so that it made it 3D. Lastly I had
to change the colour for every single bit of text so that it looked like it was
going down a gradient.

20. In the final step, I simply add my initials in the bottom right corner and
change the colour to a bright white.