Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Album Art Exercise

Album Art Exercise




In this exercise, we had to practise creating art for an album. In this, we chose a band title, album title and we chose a photo which we would alter it in some way to make it our own.

The first thing we had to do was find our band name, which was from generated from a random wikipedia page. I was given the name Gallium, which is a chemical element, and i thought it would be perfect for a practise of creating album art.


I then found a random quote, in which I had to pick four words from it and use it as my album name. I thought that this title for the album would be perfect because it would provide a variety of ways in which I could create successful album art.
I picked a photo from a website called Flickr, and it was randomly generated. I thought this would be a perfect picture to match my album name, for it was simple, yet eye-catching.

To make this picture my own, I added a few effects to it, which will make it look more aesthetic, which relates to the title of the album. I thought that having a simple, everyday life picture, along with some effects which bring out different colours into the photo and make it more pastel colours would really support the album name. Also, I slightly faded in the band name, Gallium, into the trees to make it look like nothing changed, yet it would look unique.



In this exercise, I learnt how to use photoshop and all the effects which would make my album more noticeable and impressive to my audience, and I learned how to edit pictures, put the text on pictures and create an image which will support my album's success.

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