Ancillary Task: Album Cover

For our album cover, we looked at the way that other bands produced their own. We decided that a lot of these bands used abstratc art or other artistic ideas, especially in the text on the cover as this is usually in a unique font that portrays the 'rock' idea.

For our album cover, we decided that we wanted it to be abstract but still portray the main idea and concept behind the band. We decided to use the tiger idea but use different photoshop effects to overlay the colours onto different images. For the back cover, we decided on a simple idea of just using a leaping tiger drawing from the internet and editing the colours to make it more interesting and appealing to the audience. The text colour is white to make the cover more original and also because the white stands out on the black background and therefore is easy to read.

The images on this CD cover both started off as images from Google, allowing us to use research to gain these secondary sources. I then spent hours on Photoshop editing the images and producing different effects in order to make the images more personal and unique to our album cover. The image of the eye just started off on Google as a picture of a female eye wearing gold make-up. I then edited the tiger colouring into the pupil in order to refer it to the band name, Chasing Tigers. I then added a lighting effect to sharpen the colouring as well as upping the contrast in order to make the colours more effective.

The tiger image on the back cover was also from Google, but I edited it on Photoshop to make it black and white as well as producing a fuzzy background effect to make the background less boring and fit in with the colour scheme of the text and the black frame.