CD Cover Design Challenge
You have only 10 minutes to create a CD Cover using these constraints:
TIP: When designing with a photograph or illustration choose colors from the image or use a color scheme such as Complementary. Use fonts to enhance the concept.
TIP: When designing with a photograph or illustration choose colors from the image or use a color scheme such as Complementary. Use fonts to enhance the concept.
- Canvas: Create a 5 x 5 inch document in Photoshop
* For Photoshop use a resolution of 100 ppi for the exercise. - Image: Go to Flickr and the 3rd image on the top row is your image www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days (you can download or use a screenshot CMD+Shift+4). You can alter the image any way you wish.
* If you revise this project for your portfolio be sure to use an image of your own - Album Name: Go to www.quotationspage.com/random.php , scroll to the bottom and the last 4-5 words of the last quote on the page are your album name.
- Band's Name: Go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random, the title of the article is your Band's Name.
- Fonts: You can only use fonts you have on your computer.
- Add your image and text into Photoshop. Your image will be on a layer below your text.
- Use the Layers panel, Options Bar for Tools, Properties panel, Move tool, and Type Tool to complete the assignment in Photoshop.
Griendling, Alex. "Graphic Design Exercises by Alex Griendling." Art Nectar. N.p., 19 Apr. 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.