Creating The CD Booklet & Album Artwork

I began designing the artwork for the CD booklet and cover in early February and since then I have progressed a lot on the artwork for the booklet and cover.





I have been going into detail on photoshop to make sure all the colours were exactly how I wanted them to be.

At times, I was changing the colours pixel by pixel to make sure the colours were as precise as I had wanted.







In addition to colour correction with the artwork especially. I began using various effects which Photoshop offers such as gradient changing, brightness and vibrance altering, photo filtering, changing the colour curves of the image and many more. I did this to make sure that all the images had a warm effect on them and to give them the slight sunset tint to each image in order to make the image look effective to the audience.






It also required a lot of time to superimpose the text of the front and back covers to the signs which I pictured when I was out recording the music video.

The content in the booklet was relatively similar to the artwork in the use of effects to make the image have a warm effect. In addition, the CD booklet content had to contain small text in order to fill all the vocals from one song on the page. In order to achieve that I used the stroke effect to give a white outline of the black text making it easy to read whilst it being small.





Using Adobe Illustrator I was able to begin piecing each part of the booklet together on a template which makes it ready to print in the size required to fit inside a CD case.

 

 

From the images we took when filming of some signs attached to a broken gate, we were able to create the idea for our front and rear covers for our album. With the effects and techniques above, we were able to create the front and rear covers different to its original sourced image. With the rear cover especially, it took time in order to remove the reflection of the sun from the image to make sure the rear cover was perfect.