Album cover

Back cover



This is my final back cover, I chose this image because I felt that it was appropriate in terms of relating to the song. The image shows a wooden wall and beyond the wall is a school. As the song i am promoting reflects on school life i thought that this wouldnt be appropriate. I edited the sky in this image to give it a better effect. i edited this on www.pixlr.com. Which is a free online picture editing programme.






This is the front cover. This is an image which i took in America. I felt that this would be the most appropriate image in connection to the genre of the artists music, as its very representative of the type of music that it is. My final cover is very opposing to my original idea where i wanted the artist on the cover. I felt that having a cover without the artist on is always very effective. This regularly is an indication that the artist is very famous and not in desperate need of more recognition. The album 'These streets' shows a different side to Paolo Nutinis musician skills as this album contains music of a more chilled out/blues genre.





Inside page









This is my final inside page. I wanted this to be in contrast to the album cover, this is very opposing in terms of image and style, however it relates to the cartoon effect of the album 'Sunny Side Up' and is in keeping with the colours of the sun on the cover.

In my album package i wanted to include some contrasting images. so i decided to go with the bright cartoon effect of the street which i edited on photoshop. my front cover image was unedited in terms of colour and contrast, however the writing that is on i edited on photoshop, using a simple font which i manipulated to look more personalised. My back cover is an image that i decided to use because i feel that the blue skies and wooden material together created a good effect. I edited this image in photoshop and www.pixlr.com. Firstly i heightened the contrast of the wood and second i selected the small area of the window and edited the contrast and brightness. I wanted the skies to stand out. I chose a font that looked good and in keeping with the theme and also similar to the font on my front cover. I decided to go with the colour black as it would stand out. I tried using a white font but this didnt not look good and it was difficult to see the words clearly.



Here is an example of one of Paolo Nutinis existing album covers;




In relation to my statement of the artist not in need to recognition, i think this album cover supports this. This album cover does not portray the artists face, just a cartoon, yet it is very effective.




Digipak





This template is an example of the conventional sizes that my cd case will have to obied by.