Rather than designing all of the components for the album cover in the same document, I created various components in separate adobe programs for practical reasons.
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The main graphic for the cover of the album I designed in Photoshop. This was due to the fact that it involved various image layers and I also needed to edit the photos that were being used, for instance change them to black and white and mess about with the contrast to make the images more striking.
For the band's logo, I printed out picture of a nettle leaf and drew over it, incorperating the letters NTLS into the design. The original sketch was in pencil, and to scan the image in with a clearer line i went over the pencil with felt tip pen.
I scanned in the image and then opened it up in Adobe Illustrator, and then used a tool to create a mask that selected all of the black areas of the image, isolating the design. I neatened up the edges of using a pen tool and make it so that the thicknesses of the lines were the same, and above is the final result.
With all the graphics now designed, the next step was to piece the components together into a functioning album.
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