Cd front cover ideas

Drafting for the CD Front Insert

Anand, Trupti & Urvi

Steps To Making Front Cover 1• • Black & White Effect• - Went to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. To Make the saturation 0• - Then Renamed the layer: 'Black & White Picture'• - Duplicate 'Black & White Picture' layer and then it was renamed into 'B&W Picture Copy'. • - In the 'Black & White Picture' layer, the smudge tool was used with opacity 77% and it was

smudged around the person (Sandhya) so the she was not smudged but the buildings were.

• Crack effect• - Tutorial to make the crack effect -

http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-create-a-realistic-crack-effect-on-face/• - After using the previous tutorial, the crack is a brush. The brush was then used to put

cracks on the face and shirt.

• Font• - 'Still Not Broken' font - Champagne & Limousines Size 36• - 'Sandhya Acharya' font - Champagne & Limousines Size 12

http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-create-a-realistic-crack-effect-on-face/

CD Front Cover Idea 1

This was our first CD cover however with many opinions we decided to work on this to a further extent. Here the crack effect is used on one side of her face and her body. This reinforces the state of mind she is in. The font, ‘Champagne & Limousines’, was very formal and easy to read.

CD Front Cover Idea 2 (v1)

This was another attempt at the CD front cover. This looks more like a CD cover than the previous attempts. The crack effect is shown in this image and the purpose of this is to reinforce the fact she is half broken but ‘still not broken’. We decided to change the font to the plain ‘Myriad Pro’. The font in this is quite simple and is not very eye catching. To improve the font can be in bold.


Here the font is bold and stands more than the previous attempt. Also to make the CD cover look more professional, a Gassian Blur was used to reinforce her fragmented state of mind. Also it shows that the artist wishes to blur her memories and forget about them.


In this image there is a white glow added to ‘Still Not broken’. This was done because the black text from the previous attempt clashed with the top the Sandhya was wearing therefore the white glow was added in order for the text to be seen much clearer.


This was the same layout to idea 6 however this is without the crack effect.


All previous versions were not in the correct dimensions therefore this attempt had to be redone on a different canvas.


The font looked too simplistic so we decided to bring back ‘Champagne & Limousines’ from the previous idea. We decided to combine the cracks from the other idea into this one to improve the look of this idea and to further reinforce the album name


This was the third attempt for the CD front cover. This effect was to reinforce her life as miserable and unhappy. However the font here doesn't really stand out and is not eye catching for the audience. Also for a CD front cover to be successful it needs to have an appealing look therefore after many opinions on this we decided this is not the CD front cover we will be using.


Developing on the second CD front cover idea, we missed out the artists name and this is shown in this image on the left. However the cover still looks quite simple and does not send out the message to the audience of what her album is based on.


This version is different in terms of the album title ‘Still Not Broken’ which is in bold and stands out more.


To be precise we measured the dimensions of the CD cover again and found

out that they were different. Therefore we decided to test it out on a London background to see if it looked okay.


Here we took our previous idea and made the image wrap around the CD cover according to the new dimensions. We will now go on to add text and other features of a CD such as spine, company logos, barcode and

track listings.


In this version, we added the crack effect and added the artists name and the name of the album. We also made amends to the brightness of the background and the hue saturation using the gradient tool.


In this version, the position of the crack moved towards her eye and the cracks on her arm disappeared. Also the brightness was decreased to make the artist stand out more. The opacity also decreased. The image also had been cropped however we decided to change the image back to the original one.


This was our final version of the CD front cover. We added the crack back onto her arm and positioned the crack more onto her cheek rather than near the eye. Also the brightness was decreased to make the dimensions more visible.

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