My Music Magazine Front Cover

Music Magazine - Front Cover

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Above you can see my final Digipack front cover. I constructed the front cover using Photo Shop CS3. I started with my photo of Lewis. As the initial photograph of lewis was not the right size/format of a typical digipack cover, I decided it would be a good idea to use the clone tool to make the picture bigger but still have the same scene. The next thing I decided to do to edit the image was to flip it over so it was basically a mirror image of this. The idea behind this was so that the blood on his chest was now on the left side of his chest, representing a bleeding heart. I decided this would make the digipack cover be more metaphorical and would allow my target audience to relate to the album cover. Another edit I did to the image was to change the sign that Lewis was holding. In the original photo Lewis is holding a sign saying Monsieur Lewis. I thought that it would be better for the digipack cover to use his stage name of The Next Forever as this would enable my target audience and his fans to notice his name and recognise it. Another reason for changing the name is to stop any confusion arising to the viewers. I then developed the idea of changing the name to change it to the actual song title name and then have The Next Forever in another area of the digipack album cover. So now I changed the sign he was holding to say the tracks name - "Upstream". I did this by using the clone tool to select an area of the sign in which the sign hadn't been wrote on and then colour over the writing. I then used the paint tool and a graphics tablet to handwrite the word "upstream" on the sign. Next I had to create a album title. This process involved going onto www.dafont.com and from there I downloaded a font that I thought would be ideal for the album cover. I then installed the font onto the computer and then opened it on photoshop. When it came to selecting a colour for the title, I decided red would be an appropriate colour for the album cover. This is because red connotes thoughts of romance and this as the songs theme is about love I thought this would be appropriate. I then decided to use the colour of the fake blood from lewis' heart in the image. To do this I extracted the colour from the heart using the pipette tool. Then I selected the font and composed the title. I thought it would be a good idea to link up some of the text to make it flow more. I did this using the graphics tablet and the paint tool. I drew lines to link up some of the letters such as the letter "x" in the word "Next" and the letter "v" in the word "Forever". I thought this looked nice and made the title more interesting looking and visually appealing.