Secondary Task - How we made our CD Cover

In order to make our CD cover, we used the Photoshop program.

Our idea for the CD digipak meant that we needed to take a number of our own images, and edit them together to make the final piece.

These are the photos that we used for the CD Digipak

Front Cover

Our front cover was very simple. In order to make this, we simply took a photo of a street dance class, with the penguin in the middle of the shot. The idea was that the dancers would be all striking the same pose, and the image looked choreographed, with the penguin sticking out in the centre of the image. This image would form the basis of the front cover of our CD cover. Once we had the image, I simply needed to add and edit the text. The text I added read 'Eric Herman', the name of the artist in bold lettering across the top of the page, whilst the title of the album 'Dance Like An Animal', was in slightly smaller text and ran along the bottom right of the page. I then edited the text using the 'Drop Shadow', 'Bevel and Emboss' and 'Stroke' effects.

Inside Pages

For the inside pages, we used the empty dancefloor as the background to the page. Along the left hand side of the double page spread we used the picture of the penguin in the 'Michael Jackson' pose. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut the image out, and copy and paste it so that it was placed on the background of the inside pages. The image needed to be resized so that it would properly fit on the inside cover. Along the right hand side of the page we had the same image that we used in the photo, of the tiger in the John Travolta pose from 'Saturday Night Fever'. To edit this image we used the same techniques that we did for the other image. We then added the text, with the left hand side of the page having the lyrics to 'Dance Like An Animal', and the right has infomation about the artist.

Back Cover

To create the back cover, we used the same background as before, of the empty dancefloor. We added the text for the tracklisting, and used the same effects on the writing, for consistency. We again used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the image of the elephant and the tiger attempting the 'Dirty Dancing' pose, which was emerging from the bottom right corner of the page.