Something for the Weekend - Part 250 - A picture for the album!

[davescm]

Thanks to all who took the time to participate in our last 'Poison Pen' challenge. There were some great ideas and images.

This week we have something different, thanks to an idea suggested a couple of weeks ago by @Trevor.Dennis . Growing up, I always liked buying record albums and I loved the cover art that contained the record, sometimes as much, and occasionaly more, than the record itself! There were iconic images such as Hipgnosis' graphical prism on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', or Richard Corben's fantastic graveyard bike on Meatloaf's 'Bat out of Hell', and who can forget Peter Blake and Jann Haworth's cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

So the challenge for this week is to think of an album you liked and come up with your own cover design for it. There is no real starter image but I have attached a simple grey square 2500 x 2500 pixels in sRGB to use as a format.

When you post your response can you add just a few words on what the album is and how you went about it. It may help others see the potential of different approaches, software, and tools to such a challenge.

The “rules”:

• Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
• Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
• The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used. 
• There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun!

Dave

[Christelle RD]

Thank you @Trevor.Dennis 
Oh, a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, it must really be something special!

I listened to Kraftwerk and King Crimson, I didn't know them and I'm happy of those discoveries 😊 - Love the electro style of Kraftwerk and the jazzy rock of The Court of the Crimson King (what a cover)!
I try to keep up with new music by reading magazines, but my main sources of inspiration are my ballet teachers. Out of personal taste (or habit, I'm not sure), I tend to prefer instrumental music (I prefer music without vocals, with exceptions such as David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mika, ...). Basically, I do love classical music and that extends to film music and its variations (Harry Potter, William Joseph's Variation on Hunger Games, for example) and electronic music.

I recently discovered Oneohtrix Point Never and I really like it.
When I listen to them while working, it's because I want to feel new. Now that you mention it, I'm thinking about it: artistically new. Right now, I'm trying out lots of new media so I can mix them together. I used to only do realistic figurative illustrations, but now I would like to integrate surrealism... In short, this music pretty much represents my state of mind at the moment.
Maybe there is a reason too why you're listening to KC later stuff so much right now ...

Oups, sorry for taking so long 🤭

[Trevor.Dennis]

@Christelle RD I love reading posts like yours, and especially from CEs.  I replied to a PM from Allan earlier today, and made sure to ask about where he lives, what he does etc.  

I've not done the Proms nights at the RAH, but They have a big screen in one of the parks for Last NIght, and I have done that.  I have also done the Leeds Castle classical music events, and both are marked by competing to have the fanciest food tables, and to see how much alcohol you can consume.  

[Christelle RD]

Those concerts should be amazing - a big screen in a park is so cool 😊
I found Night of the Prom's 2025 on Youtube, and I'll have a look on that!

[davescm]

That's a new band to me, Christelle, and you've done a very nice job recreating the cover. 🙂
Dave

[Christelle RD]

Thanks Dave for your comment and the idea of that challenge ! 
If Oneohtrix Point Never is a new for you, I hope you enjoy the discovery.

[Nick Gioia]

Trippy!

[jane-e]

Cheers!

Jane

[Trevor.Dennis]

My feet were tapping just reading the song titles Jane.  Least ways, they were till I got to Lily the Pink.  After that it was more a case of  'How am I going toget that song out of my head?'

[davescm]

Haha, party time, Jane! With the Irish songs, I wonder where the Guinness is though 🙂
Dave

[jane-e]

Trevor, I learned "Lily the Pink" years and years ago from some lads who stayed with us while on an exchange program from the UK. They only sang the chorus, and I wasn't sure it was a real song until I looked it up for this challenge.

Dave, the Guinness is in our glasses, of course!  😊 I don't know any Guinness drinking songs, but please add them if you do!

Here are some links for those who want to listen without a web search:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33A2yiKcHH0&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1x0y7Uirdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzS1QakBt0&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwb8C2TijYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQaiW2OW8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrF4nF8VUb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le61bGcXlq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKk0Nf5n1BM&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4

Jane

[Jacob Bugge]

"I don't know any Guinness drinking songs,"

How about this by the Dubliners from the sixties, Jane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4v_d_vxX8Q&list=RDt4v_d_vxX8Q&start_radio=1

[jane-e]

Thanks for the add, Jacob.

[Nick Gioia]

You forgot the classic. It's five O'Clock somewhere. Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett. Awesome design, I think I will have a drink now. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hey!  No one said we couldn't do the easy ones. 😉

[davescm]

Another very good re-creation, Trevor, nice. 🙂
Dave

[fbeaume]

Simple but efficient!
Nicely done!

[Nick Gioia]

Coldplay all the way! Outstanding job!

[Trevor.Dennis]

No Ai again.  In fact the ape on the Endless River cover is the only time I used Ai for this thread.

[davescm]

Haha, A new take on the album and who doesn't remember dueling banjos in 'Deliverance'. Very clever. 🙂
Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

This one was the most fun to do Dave.  I am not sure there is any such thing as a steel banjo like Mark Knopfler's on the original album cover, so I started with this one from Sketchfab.  Then tried to find a new steel skin before realizing that I was being stupid, and that Mark's guitar has a central disk that could be shaped to fit the banjo.  So most of time went into making the strings look at least a little bit believable.

Apparently Brothers in Arms is the first CD that most people bought after buying their first CD player.  That was the case with me, but I don't remember the last time we played a CD in this house.  I am not even sure that my car radio even plays CDs!

It's great to see some more covers being uploaded, and some very interesting ideas as well.

[Nick Gioia]

This funny. I live in Kentucky. Not from Kentucky, though. lol

[Turtle.PSD]

= D 

Tracklist:

I generated the doors within Firefly with specific references. Sponge effect from the filter gallery to emulate the effect on the image I was referencing. Frontmans door door has 2 seperate layer masks one for just the glass in it's seperate blending mode. I used a color range select mask to easily isolate the glass which is the only door part not affected by a gradient map.
The background was subtely distressed by adding monochromatic noise on a grey layer, gaussian blurred significantly, with adjustment layers and opacity change.

Then I used some splatter brush to distress text and add finishing touches.

[davescm]

I like the way you used different doors for each band member. Thanks for including an explanation on how you went about the challenge.
Dave

[Nick Gioia]

Love the Doors; Jim Morrison went too early.

[EuanWilliamson]

I wonder what genre of music it is