“Make a collage out of your pictures in the software of your choice and turn it into some rad Album art! Experiment with filters, add shapes and colors, and think about how you can create a design out of your photos.
Finally, come up with a band name and album title to add to your design piece. Think about your music genre and what decade it would be released in. And most importantly, be creative, and have fun!”

Create Rad Album Art From Photos

I have a note page on my note app with band names that will probably never get the musicians to host them. Something about the syllables of certain words just sound like band names and it is sad enough that they will go to waste, I have zero ability to music, so it is at least enough to record them.

The band names I was going to chose between were Lethal Muffin, Squeaky is Relative, and Concrete Ass. As you can see, I chose Squeaky is Relative.

For the album cover, I searched back through all of my photos and combined these.

I made the first two photos opaque and layered them over the painting in the photo. I layered them many times just to mess around with how much either one can be seen.

Then I just played around with the fonts and bolding on Preview until it looked kinda cool.

This album cover would for sure be for a band in the early two-thousands. Probably a band with some aggression or anger issues. Maybe punk rock? I could probably screen some lyrics and get a friend to make some sick bass guitar riffs.

Well, now when this impossible band does form, I’ve got an album cover.

This has been Squeaky is Relative, stay safe and good night!

I love correcting records, so this ds106 design assignment felt like it was right up my alley. For this 3 1/2 star assignment I needed to pick out some photos, personal or found photos, to use to create a “rad” collage for fictional album art.

After digging through the cobwebs of my phone’s camera gallery, I decided to focus on my dog, Saria, as the album’s artist. I had a general idea of the style I wanted to use for her cover and channeled some of the punk albums and cd’s I’ve seen over the years. I went for the more simplistic and . . . I guess earthy(?) tones I recall from various artists.

I chose four images: three of Saria herself and one of my hand holding her dog tag.

I decided to split the above image into two and arranged each in a corner opposite from the other. Both were edited in Illustrator before I brought them into Photoshop. In Illustrator I used Image Tracing and set it to 6 colors. This created an interesting, sepia toned result. Once in Photoshop I also used Posterize on the adult photo, but I kept the puppy photo as it was after Illustrator.

I used the image of Saria looking out a window as the upper right corner image. I adjusted contrast, turned it black and white, and used the graphic pen Photoshop filter to edit this one. I was hoping that her silhouette against the bright window would come out looking like a spray-painted stencil and it came out just about perfectly.

In the bottom left I chose to use the photo of Saria on a walk. I rotated the photo so that her shadow was walking to the left of the album, turned it black and white, and again used the graphic pen Photoshop feature.

Finally, I had to decide how to use the image of Saria’s dog tag. I knew I wanted to use this rather than typing her name on the album. I decided to keep the stencil-like, black and white style here. I used the same techniques as the window and walk photos, but also played with the luminosity blending option. This added a unique effect which incorporated some browns from the two sepia-toned images where those corners intersect. I then hid all other layers and deleted out rectangles to give the image a striped pattern.

I knew I had to title the album “Bark This Way” pretty much from the moment I decided to use my dog. I set the typeface to Stencil in white and placed it in the black grass in the bottom left.

Where the 80s music is at!

The collage above is from the Bank Assignment where you create a collage to make a music cover page with a band and album name. Using PS Express, I filtered the image with red but I think the cover looks better with the black and white filter. The collage has white grid borders and a white colored bold band name. The album title represents the picture of the boys hanging out and relaxing; wasting time. The pictures are fun and relaxing images of the boys crossing their eyes, closing their eyes, or just simply looking. I decided to go with black and white to make it look aged and old from the 80s. Wasting Time is the album name to represent the boys sitting in a restaurant, wasting time. For the image, I brought in the color of the font to not make it stand out but somewhat gray colored and large to not miss the point of the picture. Using the app PS Express was fun and interesting how you can bring and filter many colors into a photo. Enjoy!

For this remix visual assignment I remixed this assignment with this parental advisory remix card.

This was actually really fun to make because I was able to mess around with edits on a picture of my brother and I. I made the saturation levels very high and I sharpened the image. I messed with a lot of different settings on the photo through using Adobe Light Room.

I also added the parental advisory label and the album title, Lemon Milk. I assumed my parents wouldn’t be too happy with my brother and I creating an explicit music album.