The Process of developing the front and back cover of my CD cover

Selection of possible choices for front and back cover

These are the photos I took with a still camera; I took several photos so I had a ray of choice for my front and back cover.

Chosen Front Cover Chosen Back Cover

Out of the other possible choices of photos, I chose these two as my front and back cover, I chose these photos because my theme was ‘criminal/convict’ but with a ‘rebellious’ twist, so I wanted them to look as if they had been arrested and were having their ‘line up’ photos but to look unenthusiastic and laid-back. I believe they capture the theme in

these photos because they are in a ‘line up’ stance, but with a laid-back attitude, and once I start to edit on Photoshop the theme will come more apparent. On Photoshop I started editing, what I decided to do first was cut the people out, therefore removing the brick background and leaving them on a plain white background, I done this by the Magnetic lasso and magic wand tools which cuts around objects.

Once they were cut out I decided to smooth the edges so it didn’t looks so Sharpe and looked more realistic – not like they had been cut out, but

as if they were really there and the background was real – I done this by using the eraser tool, I tuned down the harshness of the eraser and made it a bit smaller and zoomed in so I could go around the outlines more carefully, this method simply smoothed out the edges of the people (as seen in the photos above).

Once I had finished editing I then added in the background, which was of a criminal line up wall – to go with the theme of the photos. I cropped off parts that did not need to be on the image and I enlarged the image to fit in with the size of the people.

And finally, I added in the text of the band name, ‘Rebellion’, the album name, ‘Manipulation Games’, and the track listings. And also I added in the basics of a CD front and back cover, such as a barcode, etc. Once I had done that I checked over what I had done to see if it was up to scratch, and once I thought it was I had completed my CD front and back cover.