CD cover research.

Depending on the types of music people like shows on the different kinds of CDs they buy.

Above are some examples of different covers for CDs that are out there in the world today. I prefer a CD cover closer to the style of the Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson and Lily Allen as they are closer to the style of music i enjoy listening to. Other people may disagree with me and say that they prefer to listen to rock music and so may not like the covers of some of these CD's but that all depends on somebody's taste in music and some people may like all types of different music.

The before and after of my poster.

     After.

Before.

Here is the before and after of the image i used for my poster.
Using photoshop i cropped the image so that you cannot see the top of the cove. I then brightened the image using the layer and adjustment drop down menus and then finally selecting curves and changed the brightness. In order to change the the style of the picture so that the edges had a glow. I chose the filter drop down menu and then the stylize drop down and glowing edges, i then played around with the settings till i found a style i liked. After completing the manipulation of the image i added the writting, using the writting tool on the edge of the screen then typing the information straight onto the image. I enjoyed this task however i think i could have used either another image or a bunch of images, i could have used a different font maybe make it a bit bigger. I could have experimented more with different effects and maybe lightened the original image so that it was not so dark.

Wednesday the 19th January 2011

For the next few weeks i will be designing a CD cover and posters and flyers, for a band of made up choice. For the first two weeks i missed because i was unwell. So the first two weeks the rest of the class were taken through what they had to do and then the second week they went out and took photographs for their posters and flyers.

Here are some examples of posters.

I like these images because the are different quirky even.  Different people like different styles of music and that can be shown in the clothing they wear, for example most hardcore rock fans will wear tour shirts and dark clothing with chains.