Album Cover - Back Panel

Album Cover - Back Panel Creation

After the completion of our music video, we were also given the task to create an album cover to accompany it.

Creation of the back Panel:

To first Create the Back Panel of our album cover, you first had to make sure the dimensions of the document were accurate to the size of a real album cover. We made sure that the Width and Height were exactly 4.75 inches both ways as these are the dimensions for a real album cover.

 

After I had created the new project with the correct dimensions, I quickly created a word document to create the two lines that fragment the back of the album cover. I click on insert and the click on the line to create one.

I then copied the line over to the Photoshop Document and positioned it into the bottom left corner. I also copied it into the top right hand corner so we know where the refraction will take place.

I then added a Bar-code in the bottom right corner, a 'Compact Disc Digital Audio' logo and a Copyright logo in the bottom left corner followed a caption reserving all rights of the music on the album to the artists. By doing this, it gives our Album cover a more authentic and real to life look and also creates a professional look as well.   

I then wrote out the songs that would 'be' on our music video. But before this, I went onto Dafont.com (which is a free font downloading website) to find a suitable font for our album cover. After getting to the homepage I typed in 'Futurist' in the search bar and decided on a font called 'Futurist Fixed'. From them i downloaded the font and added it to the font list that is already on the Mac.

After I had downloaded the font, I wrote out the different songs that were on our bands album. We felt the spacing and lettering of the font was ideal for an indie album cover and suited the futuristic and fragmented look we was going for. 

Finally, I placed the band name and album name above the songs that are in the album. As the last part of the band name 'Cardinal Rabbits' went across the fragmentation line, I converted the text to a 'Smart Object' by right clicking the layer that the text was placed in and clicking on 'Convert to Smart Object', this allowed me to edit the text as if it was a picture. I then cut the part of the word 'Rabbits' that crossed the line and placed it over the other side of the line, but as the line represented fragmentation I positioned the other part of the word just above the original to give it the fragmented look we set as our theme which would run throughout our album cover.  

 

Below is the finished version for the back of the album cover I created: