Album Cover - Drummer Panel

Album Cover - Drummer Panel

Brief:  This post explains and shows the creative process taken in the construction of the drummer panel of the CD cover.

Instead of using Photoshop CS6 - which was available on the school Apple Macs, I used an open-source software I was very familiar with due to using it frequently in the past.

First of all, a background was made by first making a grey to black gradient from the top left hand corner to the bottom right. Grey lines were then implemented  using a grey shade from the middle of the gradient so that lines closer to the top left would appear darker than the background and lines closer to the bottom right would appear lighter than the background.

A new image file was then created at the size 4.75inch x 4.75inch as after some research, we determined with was the size of an average CD cover. The background we created was then scaled to this size on the new image file.

 

The previously taken picture of our drummer (portrayed by Charles Frost) was then carefully cut out to remove the background.

This image was then added to our main image file, the contrast and saturation was edited slightly then this entire image was compressed and exported as one version of our Drummer Panel.

A second version was also made in which we continued are previous established theme of optics and refraction. In this version, one of the lines in the background was brought into the foreground and the image of the drummer was cut into two, which did not match up perfectly.