Different Versions of the CD Covers

On this cover, we experimented with the tools on Photoshop and turned the photograph black and white leaving the guitar in colour. We wanted to do this to make the guitar the main focus and stand out, to show it's importance in the artists music. We also used the 'contrast' and 'vibrance' tools to exaggerate the colours and make them bold. We then added the name of the artist and album onto the guitar. We kept the font plain and simple but found they did not stand out on the cover.

We decided that the black and white cover did not work very well, and so left it in colour. Here again, we used Photoshop to contrast and saturate the photograph to enhance the colours. As we wanted the main focus of the cover to be the artist and the guitar, we used the 'Gaussian Blur' tool to blur the background and leaves. We wanted the font to look as though it was part of the guitar and so to do this we used the 'Eyedropper Tool' to pick a tone off the guitar and use it as the colour of the font. To make the font stand out a little against the guitar, we applied different effects such as a 'drop shadow', glows and strokes.

We found that the orange font was not able to stand out very well on the cover, and so we changed the colour to navy. To pick the colour we used the 'Eyedropper Tool' again and chose a dark tone from the jeans. The colour of the font stood out well against the guitar. To make the text slightly slanted we used the 'Rotate' and 'Warp Text' tools.

Here we were experimenting with the font for the track list for the back cover. We selected the font 'MarkerFelt' and used the same colour as we had done for the front cover. We added the effects 'Drop Shadow' and 'Stroke' to the text to make the text clearer.