Album Cover Exercise

This is a album cover I created for a exercise to practice making album covers, for when we eventually make our album cover for the song we are making the music video for. To make this I used a random Wikipedia article generator to come up with the artist/band name for this album cover exercise. For the title of the album I used a random quote generator and found a quote then used the last four words of it which were, 'the presence of witnesses.' To get a picture I went onto a picture blog website 'www.flickr.com', and used the third picture across as the background for the album cover. I came up with the idea of making a album cover with reflective text on when I saw the picture I randomly chose, as the picture is split along the centre, I decided to make the text reflective to match the background picture. I did this by simply making two of the same text, same size and same font and then flipping one text so that it's a reflection of the other piece if text. I make the two different texts colours that stand out from the background but are not colourful, to stick with the general monochrome theme to the album cover. I also believe that by coincidence the title of the album matches the theme of the album cover which I think shows people that are almost self contained and keep themselves to themselves. I used a very clean and simple font which I downloaded off of 'www.dafont.com' called 'Headlines', I then installed the font into Photoshop so that I could use it for the font for the album cover.

I think this exercise was very good practice for designing our real album cover as it allowed me to experiment with different ideas on Photoshop based on a background image I had been given. I now will feel more confident about designing the album cover for our band as I can base a general theme for the album on whatever I like allowing me more freedom to play with different techniques and styles on Photoshop.