My Album Cover

This is my final design for my Red Hot Chilli Peppers Album.

This is the back of my C.D cover, i did this by copying chilli's from google images, i cut out the chilli's and changed the colours to white which i thought worked well with the red theme for red hot!!
Then i pasted them on photoshop then pasted the song lyrics. 

This is my silhouette, i did this by using the cut out tool which i used around the group, and changed the colour so its bright and looks more eye catching, i chose this colour because it sorted the album with the darker through the legs upwards gets lighter, i liked this effect.

I like this silhouette effect because i like the way their blacked out with rock look music instruments.
I looked at the artist Andy Potts as i like his silhouette work its gives a different and interesting effect.
I also like the way you can tell that its a rock group by looking at the silhouette straight away this is why i wanted my album cover to look different.

Here is one my own photograph taken with a digital camera, and i have silhouette Zach with an amp that made it look a bit rocky, i did a photo shoot but wasn't really happy because i didn't have time to borrow a guitar which was my original plan, but it i had taken more time with this i could of put more effort into it. 

Andy Potts.

INSPIRATION FOR MY CD COVER...

I have looked my Andy Potts photoshop work which i was inspired by his work by helping me with my own ideas for my cd cover.

Here are a few images by Andy Potts:

This photoshop image is full of colour and they are all matching colours, i like that there have photoshop shapes and pictures inside the image of a shadow person. This has given me an idea to photograph an image of someone holding a guitar, style will be rocky then i will photoshop it into a silhouette and copy my ideas and pictures inside the silhouette. I am going to use colour background an rocky style.

This is another silhouette of a side view with computers, laptops and telly around the image, this is another inspiration that i like and my idea of shapes and pictures inside the photo shoot that i do of a silhouette, i could make the images around the photograph and i will experiment my different ideas, and see what looks the best.

I liked this image because its bright and colourful so the inspiration of this picture would be the colour effects that i really like, all the colours match up together and i like all the pretty pictures around it, theres lots of green and trees, grass, flowers and butterflies its like a forests.

I like this image because i like the building effect in the background, i like the different colour pictures of people walking in a silhouette.  

Ideas on my cd cover.

I like the black and white effect and the way the group have serious faces. I like the plain, rocky effects with the black clothes they are wearing.

I like the other effect of this image of the group in colour, and the clothes effect is just normal and not much rock to the theme which i want to show rock on my cd cover.

I like the same effect if this image as the one above, only thing thats different is colour background also the pose of each one faces and the way they are standing. These pictures has gave me inspiration which i need to work on my own ideas for my final design.

Line drawing

Here is my own line drawing that i did on photoshop, i used my own techniques by having the original  picture in back and white to start with were as everyone in the class started off with a colour picture.

How technology has changed photography and how digital has taken over?

In my point of view of digital technology has made a huge impact on the world of professional photographers, i feel that professional cameras that were used in the past, tended to be large and were often complicated to use and people couldn't really afford expensive equipment. And now film processing was an expensive and different process, i think that these changes have had an impact on photographers as technology changes to better digital photography equipment which comes in better use with professional photographers and new equipment.

As for technology now it has changed so much and different processes, as we have more professional equipment now then when photographers did have a long time ago as they couldn't afford much things back in the day, and would cost so much money for specialist retouching and combining different elements of pictures, and photoshop wasn't invented then, as we have photoshop now and better computer use for professional photographs. And now looking at different photographers work using photoshop is more interesting to look now then it did back then as they had to employee people to do special retouch work which was really expensive as people couldn't afford.

Here are some examples of Sam-Taylor Wood which she has photoshopped her photographer, she's just taken a photo of the chair and a photograph of the model laying down on the floor then photoshop it so the model is balancing of the chair in a usual way so this is why back in the day people could't do thing like this as we can do now.