I decided to do my graphic design on my first album cover. An album cover is a necessity for any musician wanting to put their media out there. The album cover has to draw in the audience, its suppose to catch their eye and make them intrigued, and also supposed to visually represent the music in some way. My inspiration to this design is the album “Beerbong and Bentleys” by Post Malone, which is a simple yellow with barbwire running through it. My artist name is LemonDrop, so I thought the yellow was appropriate. The jagged spiral I acquired from a website called Pixabay, which allows you to download pictures under a Creative Commons license as long as you have an account. The older looking screen picture was acquired in Goertzen Hall. The guitar is mine, and the picture was taken in my room against a white wall. The alien in the very center is actually a picture of a poster in my apartment, the poster is “2001: The Space Odyssey” a production by Stanley Kubrick. I ended up not using all the images I originally selected in the image collection part of this weeks posts. I started off by selecting the screen picture and erased the screen itself just keeping the rest as a border. I then placed the jagged spiral behind the screen layer and centered it, after that was accomplished I added a new layer and painted in the white spots with yellow, by using the paint bucket tool. I then brought in the alien poster picture, scaled it down, and centered it on the top layer. My last step was the most difficult, the guitar, I had taken the magic wand tool to try and delete the white wall background but realized it wasn’t going to work due to the contrast in the wall, so I grabbed the quick select tool and took my time by zooming in for detail. Once I deleted the wall and had the guitar by itself, I scaled it and rotated it to fit the spiral. I duplicated the guitar twice repeated the scaling and rotating, then saved, finished my draft just in time to leave for my next COM class.

After the peer’s comments, I decided they were right. I removed the guitars, they didn’t seem to fit with the remaining picture. I also changed the bottom part of the screen to make it blend in a little better. And last I added “LemonDrop” on the bottom of the screen as my artist name.