Creating the CD

Today we were tasked with beginning to create our CD cover, taking into consideration the design of Passenger's initial album covers. It occured to us that both of the covers shown below incorporate stars into their design and so we carried this theme over into our own cover work and combined it with an image taken during our search for locations.

 

The cover art used for the single





We used photoshop to alter our original image by changing the colour levels and colour balance before merging the image with another that contains stars. This was done by segregating the area of sky and replacing it with part of the second image.

 



 

Here is the original image that was

taken during our location search



 

We then added the artist name and single title to the image which would appear on the cover before adding in further genre conventions such as lyrics to appear on the insert. The final product can be seen below.









First draft product for CD Cover

  Our cover has been designed to adhere to theconventionsof an indie track by using calmingcolours with no central image of the artist. There is also an abundanceof empty background space which draws the focus to the emptry field and the bright starry sky. The image is slightly abstract in order to flatter the audience.