Photoshop Tutorial

Creating a CD cover:

• Press new, create a custom canvas and change the sizes to height:12 cm, width: 25 cm. Make sure the pixel is on 300 and no less. 
• Firstly we started by taking photos for our CD cover and back. We decided to use close-ups of the face as this is a convention for dance pop CD covers, shown in earlier post. This is so we are shown the emotions and face of the artists that is usually well known.
• We used the ruler button on the left hand side task bar, which produced a ruler around the perimeter of the canvas, we then dragged the ruler from the left to 12 cm's in,then the next 14 cm's in.
• We then picked a background from Google images, we chose a blue neon swirl background as it was bright and is a convention of dance pop. When we imported in, we decided we wanted to cut the image and rotate it in order to create the wave effect, so that it related to the album name 'Making Waves'. In order to use the back and picture, we used the magic wand to select the background of the photo on layer one. Then we put the blue background in layer 2.
• We made sure the album name and artists name was different in colour, size and font. This is conventional to most CD covers,this is so the artists name stands out and also because some artists may have a conventional font or style they have,  Such as Florence and the machine.

• The back cover included two pictures taken side on of the artist; we put these on two different layers and also applied the magic wand on them. We also used a rubber to erase the missed areas around the face which the magic wand didn't pick up. 
• The song names on the back are placed between the two faces so that they stand out and are also white for the same reason. White could also show nature and purity, which could be related to making waves as that is associated to nature and the sea. We also used the name of the album for one of the songs on the back as usually the CD is named after one of the most popular songs on the album.
• If we had more time we would have imported a barcode on the back cover, a spine and a record label picture on the back.