I first had to decide what photo I was going to use for the album cover. This was an important decision as I had to choose a photo that would best promote our artist, fit with our song genre and also look appealing to a potentional buyer. After experimenting with a few of our best photos I chose this image to be the cover.
I chose this photo because it was clear and focused with good lighting and contrast, the artist is central and dominent in the photo and so will stand out as the main feature, she is looking directly into the camera and has a casual pose which reflects her genre of music.
Step 2 - editing
After choosing the best and most suitable photo, I wanted to edit it to make it look more professional and appealing as an album cover. I did this using Adobe photoshop. I felt that the colours in the photo were to bright and had to high of a contrast, I therefore lowered the saturation and contrast to take out the overpowering colours. However I then felt like the photo was too dull and faded which wasn't the look I was trying to achieve, so I began to play around with the photo filter tool, adding different shades of browns and oranges to the colours, this produced a tinted, old look to the photo which I really liked and felt fitted to our style.
Below is an image which shows the transition of the photo during each stage of editing.
I really liked the style of Ellie Gouldings text and so wanted to try and achieve the same effect in my own work. I went onto the website 'dafont.com' to look at different fonts that would be suitable and found the font 'noir-et-blanc', I downloaded the font so that I could try it with the rest of the cover to see what it would look like.
I used an outer glow effect on the text in order to ahcieve the look of Ellie gouldings 'Lights' album. I really like this effect because it makes the writing look as if it is lit up and glowing, making it stand out against the background which has duller, less bright colours.
Ellie Gouldings cover
Darcy Jones cover
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