I decided that i would like to design a CD cover for a Regae greatest hits, as it is one of my favourite genres. in class we learnt how to create the back ground which i thought looked pretty cool. first of all i opened a new file with the dimensions of 12.7cm X 12.7cm - the exact size of a cd cover. First of all with the new file i chose the gradiant tool and made the image red and white, with red down the bottom and white above. I then chose the filter option then followed the options through to distort and wave, i changed the wave to 38 and the amp to 40, and other options to square and repeat edge. this created red and white faded stripes, that already looked pretty cool. I went back to the filter option and click on polar coordinates, which made all the previouse straight lines, start in the center and get larger as they reach the edge of the image.
The next step was to download a colour to replace the white in the image, i went to google image and searched 'old paper' i chose a yellowish/brown image of paper that would be a good colour as the background image, i opened it in photoshop and dragged the file ontop of the image i had been working on, i changed the order of layers so it was behind the orginal layer and changed it to multiply.
I wanted teh third layer to be an image, so i searched for a rastafarian man on google and found an image for the bottom left hand corner, i used the lassoo tool to cut the man out of the rest of the file, and placed him in the corner.
Next i thought the cd cover needed some text, so i grabbed the text tool and in green wrote 'UP IN SMOKE' which i thought would be an appropiate for the genre fo music i was advertising. i used other text to describe some information about the cd, and then added black boxes as a new layer behind the text to make the text stand out. Finally i downloaded a pararntal advisory sticker to make the cd cover look as real as possible.
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