Construction-Album Cover Process (Photoshop)

Our idea for the album cover was fairly simple, we thought we would recreate the classic image of a neon sign on a brick wall, in order to recreate Ed Sheeran's image, of a very rough careless indie rockstar. After inserting a simple picture of a brick-wall We moved onto the neon writing, we added the block text however the text was hollow, therefore we had to add  the colouring seperatly using the paintbrush tool, added colouring to each section of the lettering following the colour patton of the spectrum provided. And later added a glow effect to fix the shape of the lettering.

We then inserted a photo of our front man, Taylor that we had taken early that day. We then, using the 'lasso tool', cut out the background of the photo. We added effects to the photo in order to make it more abstract and animated. We black and white and a charcoal effect. We did this to make it seem that the image of him was draw on the brick-wall in a graffiti style, to add to his image as a care free, rugged, rebellious rockstar.

We then imported the image that we created onto  what we all ready had. It was at this point we slowed down and structured the poisoning and style of all the aspects of the album cover as this was going to be the main contact point between our target audience and our music video, therefore we had to make it as attractive as possible to our target audience . 

We then needed to create the text for the title of the album. A great deal of psychology went into designing what we had, the way every aspect has a different patton and style. It creates a very rebellious imagery, the way the text is written in a graffiti style or how the picture of Taylor is only slightly off the middle, or how the "A Team" text is not straight or uniform. It's as if this album cover doesn't follow any particular rules. This can make the entire image relate to our target audience that are modern day teenagers who naturally rebel against the generation before them.

This is the second one that we designed,

 this was the design for our back cover

By Charlie Quirke and George Campbell