Photoshop Tutorial.

For our photoshop tutorial we chose Daniel as our focus point. We portrayed him as the main artist because of his stereoypical appearance suited to the rock genre. This is because he has long hair and also because of the style of clothes he was wearing which contained a skull, a relevent symbol which relates to our chosen genre. The composition of the photo allows us to draw all our attention to him because he is filling the frame. There is also a sense symmetry through him. I feel that it is important to think about the composition of the album cover, it in a way alters the importance of the subject, depending where you put it in the frame. The fact that he is holding drumsticks tells us that he is a drummer and that he is involved with the drumming on the tracks of the cd, he also has more importance because of the fact that he is the only one in the front cover, it is what the viewers see first and this image is what people are likely to refer to when hearing the songs in this album.

We named our practice album 'Death or Dishonour' simply because it was printed on his top. We chose a dark red color because it is visible against the colours in which it is over laying. Also because red tones are a common convention of our genre, relating to blood and gore. The placement of our title is at the bottom of the frame because if it was placed anywhere else, it would be covering the areas of importance -his face, drumsticks and print on his top. Also, by putting it here it balances out the photo and compliments the symmetrical aspect to the composition. Whilst editing we added a dark vertical grainy effect through the filters, which gives the photo a drained feel.

For the back cover we chose a photo where the subject was composed in the left side of the frame, therefore allowing enough space to fit in the tracks in the album. We used the same colour for the title of our song names, also both covers contain a black background which is the main conventional colour of our rock genre. For our song titles, we simply just looked through random song names from relevant artists.