Further Photoshop Skills - Album Cover Process

Similar to the previous poster I created, I have used elements of Photoshop but at a more sophisticated level at this point. Within this process I have used a wider range of tools to edit my media product and to make it look professional and more appealing for the audience to view. Below I have taken screen shots of my progression throughout the process using the elements of Photoshop as well as stating the certain actions I had undertaken to make my media product within the Photoshop software itself

Firstly I opened the Photoshop program by selecting the international paper format, which gave me an A4 paper format. I then rotated the paper 90 degrees clockwise so that the image that I was going to place was going to be suitable for my album cover. After that the image was placed from my files onto the paper itself.

Next I edited the image by using the grayscale format. This certain format turned my image black and white, removing any colour from my image. I then moved the image with the free hand tool to place the image of the band were I wanted it to be.

I then decided to place some text onto my fictional album cover of the band. I used a certain font style to make the text stand out as well as the album cover making it more appealing and engaging to view. I believe that the text style helped to give the album cover a sense of style as to what was being presented to the audience.

Lastly I inserted a bar code by placing the image onto my album cover on the left hand side of the album. I also inserted a signature below the title of the band album title to help give the product a more professional effect.