Pre Production Album Cover and Tracklist

Second Draft CD Cover-Pre Production

For my second draft CD cover I made an album cover for the Jam. For the band name I got a picture off the internet of the band logo, once I did  that I used the quick selection tool on photoshop to crop the image so I just have the logo and not the white background that was with it. I've made the logo big so it stands out a lot when on the stands so it will catch the eye of the customers. The colour scheme throughout the whole cover is red, white and blue. For the album name I got an image of the 'mod target' and put it into photoshop and used the rubber tool to write the album name on it , so it matches the band logo, plus the I chose the mod target as The Jam are a mod band so it will catch the eye of the mods who will want to listen too it. I then used the quick selection tool to get rid of the white background. For the image I got an image off the internet of the band members and used the quick selection tool to crop around them so it wouldn't have the background of the picture with it so you can see the background of the cd cover that I created. The image is high key lighting which makes the album cover look a bit more positive. For the background I used the paint brush tool on photoshop and used the brush that looks like a blade of grass and made it the biggest size possible and made the colours red and blue to go with the colour scheme and made one side darker than the others.

First Draft CD Cover-Pre Production

The CD cover draft I created was an album cover for the band The Stone Roses. I created the background by using the paintbrush tool on photoshop. I chose the colours red, blue, black and yellow as these are the colours that are used in the writing on the cover. For the band name on the cover I got a picture of it and cropped the background of the picture with the quick selection tool so I just had the writing. I made the name quite big because as its big and bold it will stand out on the stand in the music shop so it will catch the eyes of the customers. For the album name I carried on with the colour scheme of red, blue, black, yellow and white. I spaced the writing so it matched the band name so it looks better. I used a big bold font as this will also catch the eye of the customer when its on the stand. For the image on the cover i chose a picture of the four band members and cropped the background out so its just them on the background I created. I did this by using the quick selection tool on photoshop. The image is high key lighting which is positive and they all look happy and as the album is called 'The Resurrection' it makes them look happy to be back. I cropped another image using the quick selection tool on photoshop as i cropped the pictures of the lemons. I chose the lemons as they are an iconic image of the stone roses so this is another thing that will stand out to the customers.